Are clean or polluted air and water treated as commodities in the U.S. and other countries — and should they be? Assess the pros and cons of treating clean/polluted air and water as commodities to be traded and otherwise dealt with through market mechanisms (such as using pollution trading schemes and the sale of pollution rights to improve the environment, using market mechanisms to make fossil fuels and other energy more efficient and slow global warming, using profit-making private companies in clean-up efforts, making computer makers and sellers responsible for the disposal of old electronic devices, and using economic incentives to persuade people to accept a nearby nuclear waste repository) as opposed to non-market mechanisms.
The last 3 pages can they be based answering the following question:
You are a member of an international commission called together to recommend what steps citizens and individual nations (including the U.S., Mexico, and India) should take to address environmental problems of water and air pollution, global warming, habitat loss, and energy depletion that affect the entire world. Identify (1) at least 5 measures, (2) the impediments to achieving them, and (3) what should be done to help overcome these obstacles.
Category: Envirmental law and policy
Are clean or polluted air and water treated as commodities in the U.S. and other countries — and should they be? Assess the pros and cons of treating clean/polluted air and water as commodities to be traded and otherwise dealt with through market mechanisms (such as using pollution trading schemes and the sale of pollution rights to improve the environment, using market mechanisms to make fossil fuels and other energy more efficient and slow global warming, using profit-making private companies in clean-up efforts, making computer makers and sellers responsible for the disposal of old electronic devices, and using economic incentives to persuade people to accept a nearby nuclear waste repository) as opposed to non-market mechanisms.
The last 3 pages can they be based answering the following question:
You are a member of an international commission called together to recommend what steps citizens and individual nations (including the U.S., Mexico, and India) should take to address environmental problems of water and air pollution, global warming, habitat loss, and energy depletion that affect the entire world. Identify (1) at least 5 measures, (2) the impediments to achieving them, and (3) what should be done to help overcome these obstacles.
How have—and how might—laws (such as tort law as in A Civil Action, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, NEPA, CERCLA/Superfund and RCRA, and the Endangered Species Act), policies, and social groups (including environmental groups and business organizations) approached the protection of non-human animal species (whether it is protecting animals in Los Angeles County or elsewhere in the U.S. or those affected by the B.P. and Exxon Valdez oil spills, nuclear waste disposal, timber-cutting, mining, or pollution in Woburn, Massachusetts) and the issue of whether protecting non-human animal species helps protect the environment and benefits humans? How effective have these laws, policies, and social groups been in cleaning up environmental pollution? What environmental perspectives that we have examined (e.g., environmental justice, sustainable development, environmental rights, and utilitarianism) are these laws’, policies’, and social groups’ approaches to environmental protection based on?