ENSC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Risk Perception, Scientific Literacy, Crop Rotation
16 Dec 2016
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Reading 4 guber, deborah lynn and christopher j bosso in vig & kaft 2013. Chapter 3 - high hopes and bitter disappointment . Public discourse and the limits of the environmental movement in climate change politics. 2007 al gore"s an inconvenient truth released; global warming knowledge spread, Nobel peace prize granted to env scientists at ipcc and al gore. Until 2007 george w bush most anti-env president ever" (weakening of clean air act, 2007 policy and rhetoric shift; white house commended ipcc report, accepted cc as real. Tipping point" applicable both environmentally and politically: point when awareness reaches critical mass; when opponents give up opposing; or when urgency forces decisive action from lawmakers. 2007 american corporations urge mandatory ghg ceiling level, and legally binding framework" for low-c technologies; wanted gov"t to take the reins. Sub-federal level policy success abound; 36 states" climate action plans", cities agree to. 2007 was a wave, it broke, 2 years later no progress any more.
