ENVI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Nimby, Nuclear Waste Policy Act, Lois Gibbs
7 Mar 2017
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Nimby keeping environmental harms away result: harms disproportionately located in low income or politically disadvantaged areas. Result: no place to put eye sores. A neighborhood with (relatively) low costs of collective action are more likely to successfully nimby than a neighborhood with higher costs of collective action. If you want solar power, get solar power yourself, maybe you"ll influence others. When science is sound and solution offered is non-threatening, its likely that science will prevail. Therefore, there is usually policy disagreements over science. Much of environmental politics concerns trade offs between policy options with no clear. Air scrubbers (things that go into power plant smokestacks that spray water and chemicals) imply water sludge. A civilization"s energy supply shifts for economic reasons. 1950s-1970s: seen as viable alternative to oil and gas. No reason to rally against nuclear power in mid-1970s, until three mile island (policy shock) 2009: energy secretary chu announces that yucca is no longer a viable site selection.
