ES101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Oil Platform, Natural Capital, Smog
30 Mar 2018
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Greenpeace is universally recognized as an ngo (non-government organization) that protests against human impacts on the environment and the resulting environmental degradation. One of the earlier protests that led to the growth of the organization on the world stage was protesting the disposal of the brent spar oil platform in the north sea, in 1995. Some refer to this as the beginning of modern environmental activism. Environmental laws and policy are the result of the combination of administrative will and awareness as well as public concern. Consider the following case study of several species of pacific dolphin. There is a long history of public protest of the loss of dolphins to unsafe fishing practices including bans on cans of tuna over the past 30-40 years. This protest has led to international government response and laws enacted to restrict the trade of tuna from fishers who did not follow safe practices.
