PUP-4203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Post-Materialism, Alarmism, Environmental Policy
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Concepts: nimby, separaion of powers, torts, standing, administraive law, regulatory federalism. Once you reach a certain standard of living, your atenion turns to issues that underdeveloped countries aren"t focused on. People start to care about the environment when the incomes in a country increase. Problemaic because you might harm the environment while trying to raise the income of your country in the process. The more strict the environmental standards we have, the slower our economy will grow. All those business" that would have been built in the u. s, now move over to china. Let"s do something about the problem, unil it comes ime to where it"s going to have to face me. You have to be prepared to pay the cost. Didn"t want one person to maintain too much power. Congress: legislaion and money to be funded: too many commitees, congress has a role that is complex and fractured. Natural resources- congress is most acive with this.
