Most Environmental Justice (EJ) theories refer to the disproportionate exposure of minority-communities of people of color, women and the dispossessed poor of the world - to hazardous toxic damage and inequalities. As a result, it is often the case that EJ research and institutional work is caught in endless efforts to measure and evidence the social, health, and environmental risks of “browning” communities in order to seek compensations and remediation plans. While acknowledging the need to tackle the underlying political and economic root-causes of socio-environmental injustices, EJ reproduces deontological (right-based) and consequentialist (goal-based) forms of social justice in an attempt to document multiple forms of racism and discrimination. In this paper, we engage critically with this approach to show the risks of rights-based distributive politics of environmental justice. Our starting observation is that, taken together, these “minorities” form a majority of the world population which have been historically struggling to survive capitalist enclosure, dispossession and destitution. A “minor majority” of minority communities around the world are becoming the new class of “3-nothings” – no land, no job and no security’ beneath the eyes of compassionate charities. This disposable class forces all of us, from various ‘classes’ to ask ourselves: ‘what on Earth are we Working for?’ It illustrates the consequences of neo-liberal policies of pauperism as a condition of capitalist reproduction. We illustrate it using various examples from social-ecological movements in Eastern Europe.