POL 128 Lecture Notes - Market Failure, North American Free Trade Agreement, Point Source Pollution

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Envrionmentalism prisms through which we view environmentalism issues. depending on our perspective we act differently. Discourse --> how people talk about the environment. Institution --> how institutes of society value the environment for example environment canada and their regulations and laws, and how many employees have. Philosophies - --> how people articulate the environment. Ideology --> set of beliefs of how the world and is often normative and questions and proposes change in the structure. Environmental politics characterized by imperfect math to existing institution - legacies , people didn"t think of the environment in different ways back in the day because it was not thought of as importance then. Problems of scale - not neatly matched to scale of our institutions example great lakes. Ecocentrism - we protect the environment because it has value in the end. All forms of life have equal value, have a moral and ethical obligation. They don"t have right to expand at expense of others.

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