Environmental Science 3300F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: World Health Organization, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Justin Trudeau
18 Dec 2017
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7 major shifts in environmental concerns: human impact on biodiversity or natural capital o. Synthetic organic chemicals: globalization of problems and solutions. Constitution defines government authority, power limits, guarantees free speech. Really have an influecne on how our environmental impacts are dealt with. Both profit making and not for profit (ngo) Factors hindering democracies in dealing with environmental problems. Short time between elections shifts the focus to short-term issues o. Its hard for one political to focus on a long term problem because they are (sometimes) only in office for a short period of time. Humility: we don"t have a perfect understanding on every environmental issue. Encourages law makers not to make a decision that cant be reversed. If you think something can cause harm, assume it will. Prevention: make decisions to prevent future harm. If your company is causing significant pollution, put a tax on them: make them pay for their pollution.
