Environmental Policy: Protection and Regulation

The incoming trump administration is likely to see the greatest revival of environmental ism as a confrontational, grassroots, sometimes radical movement since at least 1970, when more than a million people took part in the first earth day. The vigil at standing rock, which surprised nearly everyone by blocking the proposed route of the dakota access pipeline through traditional sioux lands, was a far cry from the litigation and high-level lobbying that are so much of the environmental movement’s work these days. As courts and lawmakers continue to falter in addressing climate change, with professional climate-change denier myron ebell heading the environmental protection agency’s transition team, and scott pruitt tapped to lead it (pruitt is an ally of the fossil fuel industry and key architect of the legal strategy against president obama's climate policy) and the prospect of public lands opening to expanded mining and drilling, ever more people who believe that environmental responsibility has become a life-or-death issue are going to start acting like it.

« back to glossary index anti-environmentalism populist anti-environmentalism is a movement that opposes action towards reducing the effects of climate change and/or global warming. Anti-environmentalists seek to persuade the public that environmental policy impacts them negatively through public debate. Various groups in society have sought to counter the effects of environmental ideology and movements, to redirect and diminish public concern about the environment, to attack left-leaning environmentalists, and to persuade politicians against increased environmental regulation. Some anti-environmentalists may argue environmentalism is radical and “anti-human” due to environmentalist’s concern for climate change and their belief that humans need to interfere with the earth less or stop altogether.

2 Environmentalism Around the Globe

Dcnewton april 15, 2020 the dark side of environmentalism: ecofascism and covid-19 2020-04-15t16:43:56-07:00 all posts , student written covid-19 is not the earth’s way of healing itself, and eradicating humans is not the answer to the globe restoring itself. Yes, there is less air pollution in china, there are clearer rivers in italy, carbon emissions have slowed, and the bay area is cleaner than it’s been in months. More trends around the world have led to a now perceived link between shelter-in-place orders and positive effects on the environment. This article discusses the problematic tropes of associating social tragedy with environmental benefit and the consequences of “we are the virus” in dire times like this.

How can we help the environment the most ?

By chris woodford. Last updated: february 24, 2021. You probably take pretty good care of the place you live in: you clean it, you keep it warm, you carry out repairs when they need doing, you tidy the garden, you're nice to your neighbors and help them when you can—generally speaking, you look after your home and its environment because your home looks after you. Our planet, earth, is just as much our home, but we don't look after it anything like as well. We use its resources, we pollute it with trash, we plunder from our neighbors (other animals and plants) without a care, and we give little or no thought to what.

Principle 2: make every dollar count unnessarily expensive environmental policies, based on high-cost approaches traditionally used in industrial countries, have to avoided. There is a need for a new emphasis on cost-effectiveness, allowing for much more to be achieved with limited resources. It requires a multidisciplinary approach - one that calls for environmental specialists and economists to work together to identify the lowest-cost methods of addressing key environmental problems. Principle 3: harness "win-win" opportunities some gains in the environment will involve costs and trade-offs. Others can be achieved as by-products of policies designed to improve efficiency and reduce poverty. Reducing subsidies on the use of natural resources, clarifying and reallocating property rights, are examples of 'win-win' policies, which are expected to have beneficial impacts on the environment, particularly given the scarcity of resources devoted to solving environmental problems.

In september 2019, millions of protesters across the globe walked out of their classrooms and workplaces and took to the streets to demand that governments take concrete action to avert catastrophic climate change. Participants in the global climate strike demanded that international leaders step up environmental regulations, end government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and invest in the infrastructure necessary to rapidly transition to 100% renewable energy. Months later, citizens continue to take to the streets in support of environmental sustainability worldwide. Global warming and pollution are often portrayed as issues that fall squarely on the backs of individual consumers.

1with the fridays for future movement, environmental activism reached another level. What started with a single young swedish woman skipping school once in a week in order to protest against climate change became a global phenomenon quickly: young people from all over the world followed greta thunberg’s example and joined for “school strikes for climate” every friday. The strikes got increasingly more media coverage, and so did climate change itself. Not only the public awareness grew, but also the public support. On september 20th 2019, at least 4 million people were on the streets all over the world, marching for an environmental policy that does no longer ignore the crisis of global warming any longer and responds adequately.

Research fellow in conservation marketing, university of oxford andrea gaynor professor of history, the university of western australia aseem prakash professor of political science, walker family professor for the college of arts and sciences and founding director, center for environmental politics, university of washington nives dolsak stan and alta barer professor in sustainability sciences, director, school of marine and environmental affairs, university of washington robert m. Thorson professor of geology, university of connecticut alex mcbratney professor of digital agriculture & soil science; director, sydney institute of agriculture, university of sydney timothy devinney chair & professor of international business, university of manchester peter c. Doherty laureate professor, the peter doherty institute for infection and immunity.

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Through writing, public speaking, and taking direct action (i was arrested multiple times for climate action in the early 2000s), i have done everything in my power to fight to bring down global greenhouse gas emissions. And i have come to the stark realisation that nothing i have done has worked. Worse, emissions have continued to rise despite public concern for the environment (in the uk at least) being as high as it has ever been. Something has gone wrong. Many people do care about the health of our planet and want clean air and green spaces for themselves and their children.

Jenny price, historian, artist, author, and ivy league academic, thinks most environmentalists are sabotaging their own cause. Shouldering their tote bags through the organic aisle at the grocery store, they miss the bigger problem tearing the planet to pieces: the same system that is the source of their own affluence. Price’s new book stop saving the planet! an environmentalist manifesto , is a slim broadside, the sort of thing you can whip through in a few hours. Unlike her previous book, flight maps: adventures with nature in modern america , which is a carefully nuanced examination of the strange way americans think about nature, this one is a furious polemic, leavened with humor.

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