POLS 1160 Lecture 22: The Global Environment
5 Apr 2017
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China: pollution in china becoming increasing public health hazard. Gov. is facing increasing demands from its citizens to reduce pollution: even if everyone agrees that states, businesses, and individuals should take stronger measures to protect environment. No one agrees on who should bear the costs: chinese leaders argue developed countries should pay largest shares of costs of past emissions. Everyone wants different interests and capacities to resolve global warming: staggering health costs and diminishing benefits of pesticides are well recognized. Smaller groups of like-minded are more able to. Other issues have been successfully solved: states successfully shortened deadlines to protect the ozone layer. Montreal protocol vienna convention: international convention for the prevention of pollution from ships has reduced petroleum pollution at sea, smaller groups= generally more effective. Smaller like-minded groups= more able to overcome collective action problems: regional pollution agreements work better than global ones.
