ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Trillium, David Suzuki, Keystone Pipeline

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV222H1
• Professor: Kenneth Mac Donald

Document Summary

Lecture format: complete feb. 28 lecture: factors limiting power of environmentalism. To understand the power of environmentalists to address the environmental problem it is useful to review the following: potential actions or moral values street pool resources to install solar energy on their roofs. Keystone pipeline approval behaviour, eg forestry firm logging practices, without government intervention: necessary strategic decisions. In essence, governments make environmental policy by the following steps: environmental performance. In that process, environmentalists have influence in the early stage, getting the issue into the news media and so on to the government agenda. They have much less influence in the next stage, private, secret government-firm negotiation. Completion of feb. 28 (see those notes: sources of political power, factors limiting effectiveness, action by the individual, potential actions. Plus, see nickerson re 1994 study of 24 issues: most believed they were not responsible for the issues or threatened by them.