ENST 201 1st Edition Lecture 28 Outline of Last Lecture I Advertisements Outline of Current Lecture II Shifting Thoughts III Global Divides IV Obstacles Current Lecture I What changed people s opinions on cosmetic products that are harmful a Silent Spring by Rachel Carson i Spring was silent because all the birds are dead ii Industry power threatens careers of government workers who stayed silent about things they saw in government papers iii When this book came out Carson was vilified everyone thought she was a vengeful hysterical female because she was dying from cancer iv Chemical companies efforts to silence her actually made her book more popular because the conflicts peaked everyone s interests 1 She helped fuel a global movement to regulate toxic chemicals v US is first country in the world to develop a body of regulatory laws 1 Good things of going first n a 2 Bad things of going first no precedents so you need to experiment 3 US used command and control approach government says to industry they have equipment that will clean up what comes out of smokestacks so they need to use it 4 A lot of chemicals are grandfathered in so they are not necessarily safe 5 Many regulatory policies were created in the 70 s since then there have not been many changes vi The Great Compression the great period of the middle class difference between middle class and upper class is very small 1 70 s is decade of the environment 2 bipartisan support These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 3 very strong grassroots movements a Selma movie that made Lyndon B Johnson look like a bad guy II III i however he was all for civil rights movements he just needed grassroots support to push through the new reforms laws 4 cold war America trying to be better than Soviets 5 Energy Crisis a Arab Oil Embargo and formation of OPEC 6 No polarized judiciary so regulation would usually be looked upon favorably 7 Up until 1980 US was running on Keynesians markets are flawed and are not perfect government needs to be there to provide direction for markets economics b Global politics global system has an absence of higher authority UN does not have enough authority to enforce laws Global divides a People in US felt like they didn t need to do anything with the environment because other countries weren t doing it i Developing countries did not have the means to do anything and since developed countries weren t doing it they felt like they didn t need to b Pollution doesn t respect borders c Lead states v drag VETO states Obstacles a We don t have global parliament must be done through consensus i When there is powerful dragger state it is hard to get them on board ii Must try to seek consensus by diluting the policies so that countries are more inclined to join 1 Ex Montreal protocol passed in 1985 way too weak but overtime the countries of the world kept strengthening It so we eventually got to where we want to be 2
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