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tom mohan

Environmental crisis, democracy and morality | The Jakarta Post - 0 views

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  • "Climate change is the most severe problem we face today, more serious than the threat of terrorism", said David King, a leading UK scientist.
  • The condition is worsened still by politics.
  • liberal democracy has also failed to conserve and nurture better future environments
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  • Democracy has two fundamental values: Individual freedom and liberalism
  • Democracy offers freedom, but what is missing is collective responsibility
  • If poverty causes localized environmental destruction, wealth has global impacts.
  • condition is not getting better as consumption becomes higher. People consume more than they need.
  • his global imbalance is not only causing global poverty, but also environmental degradation. Therefore, we need a new morality toward the environment.
  • Politics and power have to be used to foster global justice.
  • are we really ready to think more about our future?
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Cheryl Casner

About Transportation & Climate Change: Overview of Climate Change: Science - DOT Transp... - 0 views

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  • The United States emits about 25 percent of the total global greenhouse gases.
  • Global mean surface temperatures have increased 0.74°C over the past 100 years. Eleven of the last 12 years (1995-2006) are among the warmest years recorded since 1850. The snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere and floating ice in the Arctic Ocean have decreased. Globally, sea level has risen 4-10 inches over the past century.
  • Sea level is likely to rise two feet along most of the U.S. coast.
tom mohan

UNRISD: Publications | Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in th... - 0 views

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  • Environmental racism refers to any policy, practice or directive that differentially affects or disadvantages (whether intended or unintended) individuals, groups or communities based on race or colour.
  • Environmental decision making often mirrors the power arrangements of the dominant society and its institutions. It disadvantages people of colour while providing advantages or privileges for corporations and individuals in the upper echelons of society. The question of who pays and who benefits from environmental and industrial policies is central to this analysis of environmental racism.
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  • nstitutionalizes unequal enforcement, trades human health for profit, places the burden of proof on the “victims” rather than the polluters, legitimizes human exposure to harmful chemicals, pesticides and hazardous substances, promotes “risky” technologies, exploits the vulnerability of economically and politically disenfranchised communities, subsidizes ecological destruction, creates an industry around risk assessment, delays cleanup actions and fails to develop pollution prevention and precaution processes as the overarching and dominant strategy
  • Environmental racism is also evident at the global level
  • Endangered people of colour in the industrialized countries of the North have much in common with populations in developing countries that are also threatened by industrial polluters
  • A disproportionately large share of the workers who suffer under substandard occupational and safety conditions are immigrants, women and people of colour.
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