Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR 449 EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
CLASS SURVEY: HYPOTHETICAL DATA RESULTS – WEEK 6
(2 Pages)
1. What is your initial level of education in nursing?
a. High school 54.7%
b. Associate’s degree 23.1%
c. Baccalaureate degree 21.9%
d. Graduate degree 0.1%
2. If you hold an associate’s or baccalaureate degree, what was your prior degree in?
a. Medical-related degree or certificate 63.1%
b. Teaching 16.2%
c. Accounting 0 .7%
d. Business administration 1.2%
e. Other 18.8%
3. Do you have a prior healthcare occupation in any of these fields?
a. LPN 19.1%
b. CAN 63.0%
c. EMT/paramedics 11 1%
d. Pharmacy technician 0.3%
e. Surgical technician 3.7%
f. Dental hygiene 2.9%
g. Other 0.2%
4. What is your age?
Average age is 41 years
20–24
4.1%
25–29
3.6%
30–34
13.2%
35–39
15.5%
40–44
17.6%
45–49
28.0%
50–64
21.4%
65 and over
0.2%
5. What is your gender?
Male 7.5% Female 92.3%
6. What is your racial or ethnic background?
a. Hispanic (of any race) 3.0%
b. American Indian or Alaska Native 0.5%
c. Asian 2.5%
d. Black or African-American 15.8%
e. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.2%
f. White 69.1%
g. Race or ethnicity unknown 8.6%
7. What is your family status?
a. Married 70.5%
b. Widowed, divorced, or separated 18.1%
c. Never married 9.2%
8. Do you have children?
a. No children 56.2%
b. One child 24.9%
c. Two children 11.5%
d. Three or more children 5.6%
9. What is the time zone where you live?
a. Eastern 34%
b. Central 29%
c. Mountain 19%
d. Pacific 18%
10. Do you own your residence?
a. Yes 61%
b. No 39%
11. Please indicate how prepared you felt to enter nursing school.
a. Extremely prepared 15%
b. Prepared 37%
c. Neither prepared or unprepared 28%
d. Prepared 15%
e. Extremely unprepared 5%
12. Why did you decide to pursue a baccalaureate degree in nursing?
Themes from respondents
· Desire to help others
· Lifelong dream
· Ability to advance
· Availability of jobs
· Earning potential
· Loss of previous job
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Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
WISE USE: WHAT DO WE BELIEVE?
HOME ISSUES OPPOSITION PROJECTS DEFENDERS WISE USE BOOKSTORE ARCHIVE
The following essay by Ron Arnold is regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have
evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement.
Overcoming Ideology
by Ron Arnold
From A Wolf in the Garden : The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate
Edited by Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham,
Maryland, 1996 ISBN 0847681858
It was 1964, the year of the Wilderness Act. Historian Leo Marx began his classic, The Mach.
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The following essay by Ron Arnold is regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have
evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement.
Overcoming Ideology
by Ron Arnold
From A Wolf in the Garden : The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate
Edited by Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham,
Maryland, 1996 ISBN 0847681858
It was 1964, the year of the Wilderness Act. Historian Leo Marx began his classic, The Machine in the Garden, with the
assertion that "The pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and
it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination."
1
A little more than thirty years after, we have the present volume, A Wolf in the Garden, echoing Marx less than tolling a
sea-change in American notions of exactly what is meant by the pastoral ideal.
Marx saw it as a cultivated rural "middle landscape," not urban, not wild, but embodying what Arthur O. Lovejoy calls
"semi-primitivism"; it is located in a middle ground somewhere between the opposing forces of civilization and nature.
2
The pastoral ideal is not simply a location, but also a psychic energy condenser: it stores the charge generated between
the polarities of civilization and nature. Ortega y Gasset recognized this as long ago as 1930 in The Revolt of the
Masses: "The world is a civilized one, its inhabitant is not: he does not see the civilization of the world around him, but he
uses it as if it were a natural force. The new man wants his motor-car, and enjoys it, but he believes that it is the
spontaneous fruit of an Edenic tree."
3
There was a certain truth to this blind sight: producers in the middle landscape invisibly yielded the raw materials for the
motor-car (and everything else). The labor power of dwellers in America's middle landscape has always been reified as
an Edenic tree to be plucked by distant capital and unappreciative consumers, and the dwellers felt it keenly.
Since 1964, the rise of environmentalist ideology has pushed the pastoral ideal increasingly toward nature, striving to
redefine the meaning of America in fully primitivist terms of the wild. Eco-ideologists have thrust their metaphoric raging
Wolf into every rank and row of our civilized Garden to rogue out both the domesticated and the domesticators. The
Wolf howls Wild Land, Wild Water, Wild Air. Whether Wild People might have a proper place in Wolf World remains a
subject of dispute among eco-ideologists.
4
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were succinctly put by Edith Stein:
The environmental movement challenges the dominant Western worldview and its three assumptions:
Unlimited economic growth is pos.
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The following essay by Ron Arnold is regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have
evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement.
Overcoming Ideology
by Ron Arnold
From A Wolf in the Garden : The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate
Edited by Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham,
Maryland, 1996 ISBN 0847681858
It was 1964, the year of the Wilderness Act. Historian Leo Marx began his classic, The Machine in the Garden, with the
assertion that "The pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and
it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination."
1
A little more than thirty years after, we have the present volume, A Wolf in the Garden, echoing Marx less than tolling a
sea-change in American notions of exactly what is meant by the pastoral ideal.
Marx saw it as a cultivated rural "middle landscape," not urban, not wild, but embodying what Arthur O. Lovejoy calls
"semi-primitivism"; it is located in a middle ground somewhere between the opposing forces of civilization and nature.
2
The pastoral ideal is not simply a location, but also a psychic energy condenser: it stores the charge generated between
the polarities of civilization and nature. Ortega y Gasset recognized this as long ago as 1930 in The Revolt of the
Masses: "The world is a civilized one, its inhabitant is not: he does not see the civilization of the world around him, but he
uses it as if it were a natural force. The new man wants his motor-car, and enjoys it, but he believes that it is the
spontaneous fruit of an Edenic tree."
3
There was a certain truth to this blind sight: producers in the middle landscape invisibly yielded the raw materials for the
motor-car (and everything else). The labor power of dwellers in America's middle landscape has always been reified as
an Edenic tree to be plucked by distant capital and unappreciative consumers, and the dwellers felt it keenly.
Since 1964, the rise of environmentalist ideology has pushed the pastoral ideal increasingly toward nature, striving to
redefine the meaning of America in fully primitivist terms of the wild. Eco-ideologists have thrust their metaphoric raging
Wolf into every rank and row of our civilized Garden to rogue out both the domesticated and the domesticators. The
Wolf howls Wild Land, Wild Water, Wild Air. Whether Wild People might have a proper place in Wolf World remains a
subject of dispute among eco-ideologists.
4
Public policy debate over the environment and the meaning of America has been clamorous these thirty years. Its terms
were succinctly put by Edith Stein:
The environmental movement challenges the dominant Western worldview and its three assumptions:
Unlimited economic growth is pos.
The Teacher´s Guide_Introduction_Worldview_DimensionGaia Education
The Teacher´s Guide-Design for Sustainability is a practical manual for sustainability teachers, ecovillage and community design educators and facilitators who are conducting courses on the broad sustainability agenda.
In this 333 page-manual you will find a comprehensive guide packed with innovative materials, methodological approaches and tools that have been developed and tested by sustainable communities and transition settings worldwide.
It covers all aspects of the transition of sustainable human settlements arranged into four distinct areas: the Social, Ecological, Worldview and Economic dimensions of sustainability. Some of the key topics covered in this guide include: creating community & embracing diversity, decisions that everyone can support, circular leadership from power over to power with, shifting the global economy, plugging the leaks of your local economy, local currencies, appropriate use of natural resources, urban agriculture and food resilience, transformation of consciousness.
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Environment and Policy
Dr Aideen Foley [email protected]
Objective
Explore environmental policy with
an emphasis on the actors and
values that shape it.
Key content
Environmental and social principles
relating to policy-making
Regulatory, market-based and non-
legislative policy tools.
Environmental policy challenges,
successes and failures
Module
overview
1. Humans and the environment
2. Environmental principles
3. Social principles in
environmental policy-making
4. Environmental governance and
participation
5. Fundamentals of sustainability
6. Environmental regulation
7. Environmental issues as market
problems
8. Environment and business
responsibility
9. Climate change policy
10. Climate change ethics
Module
overview
Assessment
2 x 3500 word learning journals.
1 question to consider each week.
Critical thinking is key.
1-5 due by 6pm, November 12th
6-10 due by 6pm, January 14th
Assignment clinics:
Lectures 5 and 10.
Humans and the Environment
How do people ‘value’ the environment?
How do people perceive environmental risk?
Key concepts
▪ Environmental worldviews
▪ Cultural Theory of risk
▪ Political economy of risk
Why does this matter?
If we consider misplaced values and
perceptions as one cause of
environmental problems, we need to
understand theoretical frameworks that
attempt to explain peoples’
relationships with the environment in
order to respond to that.
1. Environmental worldviews
Environmental values, like all psychological and social constructs,
are found ‘within’ human individuals, institutions and societies,
and find expression and representation across all human
activities, relationships, and cultural products.
Reser, J.P. and Bentrupperbäumer, J.M., 2005. What and where are environmental values? Assessing the
impacts of current diversity of use of ‘environmental’and ‘World Heritage’values. Journal of Environmental
Psychology, 25(2), pp.125-146.
Ecocentric
The person is not above or
outside of nature. E.g. Deep
ecology, eco-feminism.
Biocentric
Does not distinguish
between humans and other
life on Earth.
Environmental worldviews
Commonly shared beliefs that give groups of people a sense
of how humans should interact with the environment.
Anthropocentric
Humans should manage
Earth's resources for our
own benefit. E.g. Planetary
management, stewardship,
‘no-problem’.
“…sowing and planting of trees had to
be regarded as a national duty of
every landowner, in order to stop the
destructive over-exploitation of
natural resources…”
John Evelyn (1662), English writer, gardener and diarist
Planetary management
“It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we
sail through space. If the bread and beef above
decks seem to grow scarce, we but open a
hatch and there is a new supply, of which
before we never dreamed. And very great
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clinical case - narrated PowerPoint report
that will follow the SOAP note example provided below. The case report will be based on the clinical case scenario list below.
You are to approach this clinical scenario as if it is a real patient in the clinical setting.
Instructions:
Step 1
- Read the assigned clinical scenario and using your clinical reasoning skills, decide on the diagnoses. This step informs your next steps.
Step 2
- Document the given information in the case scenario under the appropriate sections, headings, and subheadings of the SOAP note.
Step 3
- Document all the classic symptoms typically associated with the diagnoses in Step 1. This information may NOT be given in the scenario; you are to obtain this information from your textbooks. Include APA citations.
Example of Steps 1 - 3:
You decided on Angina after reading the clinical case scenario (Step 1)
Review of Symptoms (list of classic symptoms):
CV: sweating, squeezing, pressure, heaviness, tightening, burning across the chest starting behind the breastbone
GI: indigestion, heartburn, nausea, cramping
Pain: pain to the neck, jaw, arms, shoulders, throat, back, and teeth
Resp: shortness of breath
Musculo: weakness
Step 4
– Document the abnormal physical exam findings typically associated with the acute and chronic diagnoses decided on in Step 1. Again, this information may NOT be given. Cull this information from the textbooks. Include APA citations.
Example of Step 4:
You determined the patient has Angina in Step 1
Physical Examination (list of classic exam findings):
CV: RRR, murmur grade 1/4
Resp: diminished breath sounds left lower lobe
Step 5
- Document the diagnoses in the appropriate sections, including the ICD-10 codes, from Step 1. Include three differential diagnoses. Define each diagnosis and support each differential diagnosis with pertinent positives and negatives and what makes these choices plausible. This information may come from your textbooks. Remember to cite using APA.
Step 6
- Develop a treatment plan for the diagnoses.
Only
use National Clinical Guidelines to develop your treatment plans. This information will not come from your textbooks. Use your research skills to locate appropriate guidelines. The treatment plan
must
address the following:
a) Medications (include the dosage in mg/kg, frequency, route, and the number of days)
b) Laboratory tests ordered (include why ordered and what the results of the test may indicate)
c) Diagnostic tests ordered (include why ordered and what the results of the test may indicate)
d) Vaccines administered this visit & vaccine administration forms given,
e) Non-pharmacological treatments
f) Patient/Family education including preventive care
g) Anticipatory guidance for the visit (be sure to include exactly what you discussed during the visit; review Bright Futures website for this section)
h) Follow-up appointment with a.
For this assignment, you are to complete aclinical case - narr.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are to complete a
clinical case - narrated PowerPoint report
that will follow the SOAP note example provided below. The case report will be based on the clinical case scenario list below.
You are to approach this clinical scenario as if it is a real patient in the clinical setting.
Instructions:
Step 1
- Read the assigned clinical scenario and using your clinical reasoning skills, decide on the diagnoses. This step informs your next steps.
Step 2
- Document the given information in the case scenario under the appropriate sections, headings, and subheadings of the SOAP note.
Step 3
- Document all the classic symptoms typically associated with the diagnoses in Step 1. This information may NOT be given in the scenario; you are to obtain this information from your textbooks. Include APA citations.
Example of Steps 1 - 3:
You decided on Angina after reading the clinical case scenario (Step 1)
Review of Symptoms (list of classic symptoms):
CV: sweating, squeezing, pressure, heaviness, tightening, burning across the chest starting behind the breastbone
GI: indigestion, heartburn, nausea, cramping
Pain: pain to the neck, jaw, arms, shoulders, throat, back, and teeth
Resp: shortness of breath
Musculo: weakness
Step 4
– Document the abnormal physical exam findings typically associated with the acute and chronic diagnoses decided on in Step 1. Again, this information may NOT be given. Cull this information from the textbooks. Include APA citations.
Example of Step 4:
You determined the patient has Angina in Step 1
Physical Examination (list of classic exam findings):
CV: RRR, murmur grade 1/4
Resp: diminished breath sounds left lower lobe
Step 5
- Document the diagnoses in the appropriate sections, including the ICD-10 codes, from Step 1. Include three differential diagnoses. Define each diagnosis and support each differential diagnosis with pertinent positives and negatives and what makes these choices plausible. This information may come from your textbooks. Remember to cite using APA.
Step 6
- Develop a treatment plan for the diagnoses.
Only
use National Clinical Guidelines to develop your treatment plans. This information will not come from your textbooks. Use your research skills to locate appropriate guidelines. The treatment plan
must
address the following:
a) Medications (include the dosage in mg/kg, frequency, route, and the number of days)
b) Laboratory tests ordered (include why ordered and what the results of the test may indicate)
c) Diagnostic tests ordered (include why ordered and what the results of the test may indicate)
d) Vaccines administered this visit & vaccine administration forms given,
e) Non-pharmacological treatments
f) Patient/Family education including preventive care
g) Anticipatory guidance for the visit (be sure to include exactly what you discussed during the visit; review Bright Futures website for this section)
h) Follow-up appointment wit.
For this assignment, you are provided with four video case studies (.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are provided with four video case studies (linked in the Resources). Review the cases of Julio and Kimi, and choose either Reese or Daneer for the third case. Review these two videos: •The Case of Julio: Julio is a 36-year-old single gay male. He is of Cuban descent. He was born and raised in Florida by his parents with his two sisters. He attended community college but did not follow through with his plan to obtain a four-year degree, because his poor test taking skills created barriers. He currently works for a sales promotion company, where he is tasked with creating ads for local businesses. He enjoys the more social aspects of his job, but tracking the details is challenging and has caused him to lose jobs in the past. He has been dating his partner, Justin, for five years. Justin feels it is time for them to commit and build a future. Justin is frustrated that Julio refuses to plan the wedding and tends to blame Julio’s family. While Julio’s parents hold some traditional religious values, they would welcome Justin into the family but are respectfully waiting for Julio to make his plans known. Justin is as overwhelmed by the details at home as he is at work. •The Case of Kimi: Kimi is a 48-year-old female currently separated from her husband, Robert, of 16 years. They have no children, which was consistent with Kimi’s desire to focus on her career as a sales manager. She told Robert a pregnancy would wreck her efforts to maintain her body. His desire to have a family was a goal he decided he needed to pursue with someone else. He left Kimi six months ago for a much younger woman and filed for divorce. Kimi began having issues with food during high school when she was on the dance team and felt self-conscious wearing the form-fitting uniform. During college, she sought treatment because her roommate became alarmed by her issues around eating. She never told her parents about this and felt it was behind her. Her parents are Danish and value privacy. They always expected Kimi to be independent. Her lack of communication about her private life did not concern them. They are troubled by Robert’s behavior and consider his conspicuous infidelity as a poor reflection upon their family. Kimi has moved in with her parents while she and Robert are selling the house, which has upended the balance in their relationship. For a third case, choose one of these videos: •The Case of Reese: -Reese is a 44-year-old married African American female. Her parents live in another state, and she is their only child. Her father is a retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel who was stationed both in the United States and overseas while Reese was growing up. She entered the Air Force as soon as she graduated high school at age 17 and has achieved the rank of Chief Master Sergeant. She has been married 15 years to John, and they recently discovered she is pregnant. The unexpected pregnancy has been quite disorienting for someone who has planned.
For this assignment, you are going to tell a story, but not just.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are going to tell a story, but not just any story. It will be a First Nations story, and it will be your version of it.
Choose one of the two stories at the end of this unit, either "Why the Flint-Rock Cannot Fight Back"
You can write of yourself telling one of the stories.
In telling your story, here is what you will need to consider:
Clarity of speech
Intonation
Pacing and pauses
You will also have to work out how to make this telling of the story yours. You might want to read it aloud with point form notes for a prompt or to memorize it. Perhaps you want to rewrite it so that it sounds more like your words. Maybe you will change names and place-names to those you are familiar with. If you are making a video or performing this live, you should practice facial and hand gestures as well as stance and body language. The purpose of all of this is to bring your own meaning to the story.
HERE IS THE STORY
Why the Flint-Rock Cannot Fight Back
Sto-Way’-Na—Flint—was rich and powerful. His lodge was toward the sunrise. It was guarded by Squr-hein— Crane. He was the watcher. He watched from the top of a lone tree. When anybody approached, Crane would call out and warn Flint, and Flint would come out of his lodge and meet the visitor.
There was an open flat in front of the lodge. Flint met all his visitors there. Warriors and hunters came and bought flint for arrow-points and spear-heads. They paid Flint big prices for the privilege of chipping off the hard stone. Some who needed flint for their weapons were poor and could not buy. These poor persons Flint turned away.
Coyote heard about Flint and, as he wanted some arrow-points, he asked his squas-tenk’ to help him. Squas-tenk’ refused.
“Hurry, do what I ask, or I will throw you away and let the rain wash you— wash you cold,” said Coyote, and then the power gave him three rocks that were harder than the flint-rock. It also gave him a little dog that had only one ear. But this ear was sharp, like a knife; it was a knife- ear.
Then to his wife, Mole, Coyote said: “Go and make your underground trails in the flat where Sto-way’-na lives. When you have finished and see me talking with him, show yourself so we can see you.”
Then Coyote set out for Flint’s lodge. As he got near it, he had his power make a fog to cover the land, and thick fog spread over everything. Crane, the watcher, up in the lone tree, could not see Coyote. He did not know that Coyote was around.
Coyote climbed the tree and took Crane from his high perch and broke his neck. Crane had no time to cry out. Then Coyote went on to Flint’s lodge. He was almost there when Flint’s dog, Grizzly Bear, jumped out of the lodge and ran toward him.
Coyote was not scared, and he yelled at Flint: “Stop your grizzly bear dog! Stop him, or my dog will kill him.”
That amused Flint, who was looking through the doorway. He saw that Coyote’s one-eared dog was very small, hardly a mouthful for Grizzly Bear. Fli.
For this assignment, you are asked to prepare a Reflection Paper. Af.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are asked to prepare a Reflection Paper. After you finish the reading assignment, reflect on the concepts and write about it. What do you understand completely? What did not quite make sense? The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to reflect on the material you finished reading and to expand upon those thoughts
A Reflection Paper is an opportunity for you to express your thoughts about the material by writing about them.
The writing you submit must meet the following requirements:
be at least two pages;
include your thoughts about the main topics
APA Stlye
.
For this assignment, you are asked to prepare a Reflection Paper. .docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are asked to prepare a Reflection Paper. After you finish the reading assignment, reflect on the concepts and write about it. What do you understand completely? What did not quite make sense? The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to reflect on the material you finished reading and to expand upon those thoughts. If you are unclear about a concept, either read it again, or ask your professor. Can you apply the concepts toward your career? How?
This is not a summary. A Reflection Paper is an opportunity for you to express your thoughts about the material by writing about them.
The writing you submit must meet the following requirements:
be at least two pages;
include your thoughts about the main topics; and
include financial performance, quality performance, and personnel performance.
Format the Reflection Paper in your own words using APA style, and include citations and references as needed to avoid instances of plagiarism.
The reading assignment that you are to reflect on is Chapter 11, in the text. My written lecture for this Unit is basically a reflection on Chapter 11. Find an interesting part or two of the chapter and tell me what you got out of it. It's not a hard assignment. If you read my lecture, you will see the part of Chapter 11 that intrigued me the most was the subject of codetermination on page 367. Anything that intrigues you in Chapter 11 is fine with me.
Written Lecture
Does the ringisei decision-making process by consensus, which is used by the Japanese, reach the same conclusion as the top-down methods, which are used by American management? Some might label the Japanese decision-making system as simply procrastination. Others appreciate the method and expect productive outcomes. One major challenge is to build an organizational culture to adopt the practice of ringisei. If only half of an organization uses ringisei, it is likely to cause miscommunication and result in frustration.
The ringisei is based on the theory that the employee is an important part of the overall success of an enterprise. It is common to hear a lot about
empowering the employees
. Is creativity and innovation rewarded, ignored, or punished for the lower level employee in America?
Could the Japanese system of decision making have led to the controversy of what Toyota knew about unintended acceleration problems? This may be the best example of the use of silence in the Japanese culture frustrating Americans as a nation. This is not an explicit accusation of Toyota or of Japanese culture. Rather, it is inserted here to demonstrate potential consequences of management methods, processes, systems, and decision making. Read pages 106-108 of Luthans and Doh (2012) concerning this topic. The cause of the unintended acceleration problem announced by the United States government was due to bad floor mats or driver error. Initially, electronic problems were not mentioned.
The March 2011 Fuku.
For this assignment, you are asked to conduct some Internet research.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are asked to conduct some Internet research on any malware, virus or DOS attack. Summarize your findings in 3-4 paragraphs and be sure to include a link to your reference source. Explain this occurrence in your own words (do not just copy and paste what you find on the Internet).
Include the following information:
1. Name of the Malware or Virus
2. When this incident occurred (date)
3. Impact it had or explanation of the damage it caused
4. How it was detected
5. Reference source citation
.
For this assignment, you are a professor teaching a graduate-level p.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, you are a professor teaching a graduate-level public administration administrative law course at a traditional state university. Your task is to develop a formal presentation providing an overview of administrative law—specifically by comparing and contrasting the key defining aspects of administrative law within the American three-branch federal government structure, explaining how these functions are overseen/regulated, and ultimately, interpreting how they serve the common good of the public-at-large.
Your presentation must include the following with specific examples:
Articulate an understanding of how federal agencies enforce their regulations.
Explain the fundamental role that agency rulemaking plays in regulating society-at-large.
Compare both formal rulemaking and informal rulemaking.
Articulate the similarities and differences between rulemaking and adjudication.
Analyze the various methods of oversight exercised by the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of the federal government over administrative agencies.
Articulate how special interest groups (to include the media) can influence and/or shape public opinion about administrative agencies and place a spotlight on individual policies.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the
Media
section of the
Insert
tab in the top menu bar for each slide.
Support your presentation with at least seven scholarly resources
.
In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 200-350 words for
each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate.
.
For this assignment, we will be visiting the PBS website,Race .docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, we will be visiting the PBS website,
Race: The Power of Illusion
. Click on the "Learn More" link, and proceed to visit these links:
What is Race? (View All)
Sorting People (Complete both "Begin Sorting" and "Explore Traits")
Race Timeline (View All)
Human Diversity (Complete both the Quiz and "Explore Diversity")
Me, My Race & I (View Slideshow Menu)
Where Race Lives (View All)
Given the
enormous
amount of information presented in this website, discuss what was most interesting and surprising to you in
EAC
H of the links.
Post your 200 word assignment.
Discussion Board Activity:
Now that you have learned that the race is a social concept rather than a biological truth respond to TWO fellow students with your thoughts on prejudice and discrimination pertaining to deviance, social class, and race.
(I'll send you two replies)
Due November 3rd
.
For this assignment, the student starts the project by identifying a.docxsleeperharwell
For this assignment, the student starts the project by identifying a clinical population of interest. Then, the student is to locate (10) nursing research articles from peer-reviewed nursing journals that reflect the clinical population of their interest. From the articles, the student identifies what has been researched and is currently known about their clinical population. The student is to write a summary of each article in a tabular format and submit a single summary table of all articles that provides a review of current knowledge on the selected population ( example and form will be provided ).
.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Chamberlain College of NursingNR 449 EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE.docx
1. Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR 449 EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
CLASS SURVEY: HYPOTHETICAL DATA RESULTS – WEEK
6
(2 Pages)
1. What is your initial level of education in nursing?
a. High school 54.7%
b. Associate’s degree 23.1%
c. Baccalaureate degree 21.9%
d. Graduate degree 0.1%
2. If you hold an associate’s or baccalaureate degree, what was
your prior degree in?
a. Medical-related degree or certificate 63.1%
b. Teaching 16.2%
c. Accounting 0 .7%
d. Business administration 1.2%
e. Other 18.8%
3. Do you have a prior healthcare occupation in any of these
fields?
a. LPN 19.1%
b. CAN 63.0%
c. EMT/paramedics 11 1%
d. Pharmacy technician 0.3%
e. Surgical technician 3.7%
2. f. Dental hygiene 2.9%
g. Other 0.2%
4. What is your age?
Average age is 41 years
20–24
4.1%
25–29
3.6%
30–34
13.2%
35–39
15.5%
40–44
17.6%
45–49
28.0%
50–64
21.4%
65 and over
0.2%
5. What is your gender?
Male 7.5% Female 92.3%
6. What is your racial or ethnic background?
a. Hispanic (of any race) 3.0%
b. American Indian or Alaska Native 0.5%
3. c. Asian 2.5%
d. Black or African-American 15.8%
e. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.2%
f. White 69.1%
g. Race or ethnicity unknown 8.6%
7. What is your family status?
a. Married 70.5%
b. Widowed, divorced, or separated 18.1%
c. Never married 9.2%
8. Do you have children?
a. No children 56.2%
b. One child 24.9%
c. Two children 11.5%
d. Three or more children 5.6%
9. What is the time zone where you live?
a. Eastern 34%
b. Central 29%
c. Mountain 19%
d. Pacific 18%
10. Do you own your residence?
a. Yes 61%
b. No 39%
11. Please indicate how prepared you felt to enter nursing
school.
a. Extremely prepared 15%
b. Prepared 37%
c. Neither prepared or unprepared 28%
d. Prepared 15%
4. e. Extremely unprepared 5%
12. Why did you decide to pursue a baccalaureate degree in
nursing?
Themes from respondents
· Desire to help others
· Lifelong dream
· Ability to advance
· Availability of jobs
· Earning potential
· Loss of previous job
Class Survey: Hypothetical Data Results. Wk 6.docx
revised 8/1/01 nlh
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Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
WISE USE: WHAT DO WE BELIEVE?
HOME ISSUES OPPOSITION PROJECTS
DEFENDERS WISE USE BOOKSTORE ARCHIVE
The following essay by Ron Arnold is regarded by many as the
seminal expression of the ideas that have
evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement.
Overcoming Ideology
by Ron Arnold
From A Wolf in the Garden : The Land Rights Movement and
the New Environmental Debate
5. Edited by Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham,
Maryland, 1996 ISBN 0847681858
It was 1964, the year of the Wilderness Act. Historian Leo Marx
began his classic, The Machine in the Garden, with the
assertion that "The pastoral ideal has been used to define the
meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and
it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination."
1
A little more than thirty years after, we have the present
volume, A Wolf in the Garden, echoing Marx less than tolling a
sea-change in American notions of exactly what is meant by the
pastoral ideal.
Marx saw it as a cultivated rural "middle landscape," not urban,
not wild, but embodying what Arthur O. Lovejoy calls
"semi-primitivism"; it is located in a middle ground somewhere
between the opposing forces of civilization and nature.
2
The pastoral ideal is not simply a location, but also a psychic
energy condenser: it stores the charge generated between
the polarities of civilization and nature. Ortega y Gasset
recognized this as long ago as 1930 in The Revolt of the
Masses: "The world is a civilized one, its inhabitant is not: he
does not see the civilization of the world around him, but he
uses it as if it were a natural force. The new man wants his
motor-car, and enjoys it, but he believes that it is the
spontaneous fruit of an Edenic tree."
3
6. There was a certain truth to this blind sight: producers in the
middle landscape invisibly yielded the raw materials for the
motor-car (and everything else). The labor power of dwellers in
America's middle landscape has always been reified as
an Edenic tree to be plucked by distant capital and
unappreciative consumers, and the dwellers felt it keenly.
Since 1964, the rise of environmentalist ideology has pushed
the pastoral ideal increasingly toward nature, striving to
redefine the meaning of America in fully primitivist terms of
the wild. Eco-ideologists have thrust their metaphoric raging
Wolf into every rank and row of our civilized Garden to rogue
out both the domesticated and the domesticators. The
Wolf howls Wild Land, Wild Water, Wild Air. Whether Wild
People might have a proper place in Wolf World remains a
subject of dispute among eco-ideologists.
4
Public policy debate over the environment and the meaning of
America has been clamorous these thirty years. Its terms
were succinctly put by Edith Stein:
The environmental movement challenges the dominant Western
worldview and its three assumptions:
Unlimited economic growth is possible and beneficial.
Most serious problems can be solved by technology.
Environmental and social problems can be mitigated by a
market economy with some state intervention.
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7. Since the 1970s we've heard increasingly about the competing
paradigm, wherein:
Growth must be limited.
Science and technology must be restrained.
Nature has finite resources and a delicate balance that humans
must observe.
5
That fairly delineates the public debate. However, in order to
critique an ideology, one needs an accurate statement of
that ideology. The environmentalist ideology striving to
redefine the meaning of America was expounded most
realistically
by author Victor B. Scheffer in a Northwest Environmental
Journal article, "Environmentalism's Articles of Faith." The five
tenets Scheffer proposed appear to be the core of shared beliefs
actually held most widely by environmentalists:
1) All things are connected. "[N]ever will we understand
completely the spin-off effects of the environmental changes
that we create, nor will we measure our own, independent
influence in their creation." Scheffer adds, "I use the word
nature for the world without humans, a concept which--like the
square root of minus one--is unreal, but useful."
2) Earthly goods are limited. "As applied to people, carrying
capacity is the number of individuals that the earth can
support before a limit is reached beyond which the quality of
life must worsen and Homo, the human animal, becomes
less human. One reason we humans--unlike animals in the wild-
-are prone to exceed carrying capacity is that our wants
exceed our needs."
3) Nature's way is best. "Woven into the fabric of
environmentalism is the belief that natural methods and
8. materials
should be favored over artificial and synthetic ones, when
there's a clear choice. Witness the vast areas of the globe
poisoned or degraded by the technological economy of our
century."
4) The survival of humankind depends on natural diversity.
"Although species by the billions have vanished through
natural extinction or transformation, the present rate of
extinction is thought to be at least 400 times faster than at the
beginning of the Industrial Age. Humankind's destruction of
habitats is overwhelmingly to blame."
Scheffer adds, "No one has the moral right, and should not have
the legal right, to overtax carrying capacity either by
reducing the productivity of the land or by bringing into the
world more than his or her 'share' of new lives. Who is to
decide that share will perhaps be the most difficult social
question for future generations."
5) Environmentalism is radical "in the sense of demanding
fundamental change. It calls for changes in present political
systems, in the reach of the law, in the methods of agriculture
and industry, in the structure of capitalism (the profit
system), in international dealings, and in education."
6
One can see the Wolf skulking in each of Scheffer's five tenets
of eco-ideology.
Actual organizations and individuals comprising the
environmental movement stress different clusters of these
tenets.
Although the environmental movement's structure is complex
and amply textured, three distinctive axes of influence
9. dominate environmental politics in America:
1. Establishment Interventionists - acting to hamper property
rights and markets sufficiently to centralize control of many
transactions for the benefit of environmentalists and their
funders in the foundation community, while leaving the market
economy itself operational. They tend to emphasize the need for
natural diversity and in some cases to own and manage
wildlife preserves. Notable organizations in this sector are the
Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, National
Audubon Society.
2. Eco-Socialists - acting to dislodge the market system with
public ownership of all resources and production,
commanded by environmentalists in an ecological welfare state.
They tend to emphasize the limits of earthly goods.
Greenpeace, Native Forest Council, Maine Audubon Society are
representative groups.
3. Deep Ecologists - acting to reduce or eliminate industrial
civilization and human population in varying degrees. They
tend to emphasize that nature's way is best and
environmentalism is radical. Earth First!, Sea Shepherd
Conservation
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Society, Native Forest Network are in this category.
7
The Wolf in these varieties of sheep's clothing is rapacious, not
simply protecting nature, but also annihilating the
10. livelihoods of dwellers in the middle landscape.
Today the Wolf is firmly entrenched in Washington, D. C.,
where important environmental groups have established
headquarters or major operating bases. Eco-ideologists have
written many laws, tested them in the courts and
pressured many administrative agencies into compliance with
their ideology. They have, in brief, become the
Establishment. The apparatus of environmentalism is no longer
represented merely by non-profit organizations, but has
grown to encompass American government at all levels.
Since the inception of the Environmental Grantmakers
Association (EGA) in 1985, the foundation community has
usurped
substantial control of the environmental movement. The
standard philanthropic model, "non-profit organization submits
its
proposal to foundation for funding," has given way to "a
combine of foundations selects and dictates grant-driven
programs to non-profit organization." In the instance of the
Ancient Forest campaign in the Pacific Northwest, a cluster of
six EGA foundations even went so far as to create their own
projects because of dissatisfaction with the capabilities of
the Washington, D.C. environmental community. The
foundations derive their income from managed investment
portfolios
representing the power elite of corporate America.
8
As the environmental debate developed during the late 1980s,
the "dominant Western worldview" gained an organized
constituency and advocacy leadership: the wise use movement.
Incipient and gestating more than a decade in the
bosom of those who had been most wounded by environmental
11. ideology, the new movement congealed at a conference
in Reno, Nevada in 1988. It was centered around a hodgepodge
of property rights groups, anti-regulation legal
foundations, trade groups of large industries, motorized
recreation vehicle clubs, federal land users, farmers, ranchers,
fishermen, trappers, small forest holders, mineral prospectors
and others who live and work in the middle landscape.
9
It came as a shock to environmentalists. The "competing
paradigm" unhappily found itself confronted with a competing
paradigm. The free ride was over. A substantial cluster of non-
profit grass roots organizations now advocated unlimited
economic growth, technological progress and a market
economy. They opposed the eco-ideologists' proposals using the
tactics of social change movements, such as mobilizing grass
roots constituencies, staging media events including
protest demonstrations and orchestrating letter-writing
campaigns to pressure Congress.
It was a pivotal shift in the debate. No longer were eco-
ideologists able to face off against business and industry,
pitting
greedy for-profit corporations against environmentalism's non-
profit moral high ground. Now it was urban
environmentalists defending their vision of the pastoral ideal
against those who actually lived the pastoral ideal in the
middle landscape.
This simple structural rearrangement of the debate went
virtually unnoticed, but was crucial: Now it was non-profit
against non-profit, one side promoting economic growth,
technological progress and a market economy, the other
opposing.
12. The emergent wise use movement held up a mirror to the
embarrassing questions posed by the "competing paradigm":
Just who will limit our economic growth? Who will restrain
America's science and technology? Who will decide what
"delicate balance humans must observe"? The answer was clear:
only environmental ideologists, and not those who
create economic growth, science, technology or the market
economy.
Asserting such onerous control over others was not attractive
and clarified the environmental movement as just another
special interest protecting its selfish economic status.
Economics is not about money, it is about the allocation of
scarce
resources. The wise use movement bared the environmental
movement's ambition to be resource allocator for the
world.
10
Environmentalism's efforts to turn America's pastoral ideal wild
stood out in sharp contrast to the wise use movement's
actual stewardship of the land, the water and the air. Wise users
were not perfect, to be sure, but they were down to
earth, real, and necessary. They created economic growth,
employed science and technology, and drove the market
economy.
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Environmentalism, by contrast, appeared in the same light as
pastoral literature in critic William Empson's Some
13. Versions of Pastoral: "about the people but not by or for them."
11
Environmentalism, like pastoral literature, was about those
pastoral rural dwellers who produced dinner, dress and
domicile for everyone, but was generated by the educated elite,
not by those who lived the pastoral ideal.
Environmentalism's ideology was promulgated for the ruling
elite, not for the farmer or rancher or family forest owner or
mineral prospector.
When the wise use movement arose to demystify eco-fetishism,
the environmental movement lost its grip on the debate.
It was as if history had played a huge joke on environmental
ideology.
The environmental movement was not amused.
The first environmentalist reaction to the emergence of the wise
use movement was passive denial--ignore it and it will
go away. That lasted from 1988 to early 1992. The present
phase of active denial began with a study of the wise use
movement by the W. Alton Jones Foundation dated February,
1992, portraying the rising social force as a mere front for
industry, created by industry, paid for by industry, controlled by
industry. The fact that foundation analysts sincerely
believed this assessment points up how unprepared the
environmental movement was to lose its favored "non-profit
versus for-profit" moral high ground in the debate. Industry had
to be the opponent. The wise use movement had to be a
mere front. So that's what they saw.
12
This humbuggery lasted only half a year. Further research,
14. sponsored by The Wilderness Society and conducted by the
Boston-area media strategy firm MacWilliams Cosgrove Snider,
disclosed a disturbing truth: "What we're finding is that
wise use is really a local movement driven by primarily local
concerns and not national issues.... And, in fact, the more
we dig into it, having put together over a number of months a
fifty state fairly comprehensive survey of what's going on,
we have come to the conclusion that this is pretty much
generally a grass roots movement, which is a problem, because
it means there's no silver bullet."
The words are those of Debra Callahan, then director of W.
Alton Jones Foundation's Environmental Grass Roots
Program, at the 1992 Environmental Grantmakers Association
annual fall retreat. Her session, titled "The Wise Use
Movement: Threats and Opportunities," capped off the three day
convocation of foundation executives.
13
Callahan's source, the MacWilliams Cosgrove Snider report,
titled "The Wise Use Movement: Strategic Analysis and
Fifty State Review," affirmed that the wise use movement was
the greatest threat the environmental movement had ever
faced.
14
"What people fundamentally want, what people fundamentally
believe about environmental protection," Callahan said
polls revealed, "is that no, it's not just jobs. And no, it's not just
environment. Why can't we have both?
"The high ground is capturing that message, okay? The wise use
movement is trying to capture that message. What
they're saying out there is that 'We are the real
15. environmentalists. We are the stewards of the land. We're the
farmers
who have tilled that land and we know how to manage this land
because we've done it here for generations. We're the
miners and we're the ones who depend for our livelihood on this
land. These environmentalists, they're elitists. They live
in glass towers in New York City. They're not
environmentalists. They're part of the problem. And they're
aligned with big
government. And they're out of touch. So we're the real
environmentalists.'
"And if that's the message that the wise use movement is able to
capture, we are suddenly really unpopular. The minute
the wise use people capture that high ground, we almost have
not got a winning message left in our quiver."
Judy Donald of the Washington, D.C.-based Beldon Fund, and
Callahan's co-presenter, took the conclusion another
step. "There are, as Deb has made clear, ordinary people, grass
roots organizations, who obviously feel their needs are
being addressed by this movement,; said Donald. "We have to
have a strategy that also is addressing those concerns.
And that cannot come simply from environmentalists. It can't
come just from us. That's the dilemma here. It's not simply
that people don't get it, it's that they do get it. They're losing
their jobs."
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Barbara Dudley, then executive of the Veatch Fund, now head
of Greenpeace, stated: "This is a class issue. There is no
16. question about it. It is true that the environmental movement is,
has been, traditionally ... an upper class conservation,
white movement. We have to face that fact. It's true. They're not
wrong that we are rich and they are up against us. We
are the enemy as long as we behave in that fashion."
These commanders of environmentalism had acknowledged they
were destroying jobs and hurting those who produce
our material goods. They admitted themselves the enemy. This
moment of self-comprehension was a tremendous
opportunity to repent and reach out to wise users, dwellers in
the middle landscape who felt betrayed by big government
and big business.
Instead, the foundations and their environmental cohort
deliberately fell back on their stereotype, portraying wise use as
a front for corporations, and risking a frontal assault against
wise use with new tactics: "Attack Wise Use.... Find
divisions between Wise Use and Wise Use and exploit them....
We need to ... talk about the Wise Use agenda. We need
to expose the links between Wise Use and other extremists...."
In other words, a smear campaign would be mounted to tie wise
users to unpopular extremists such as the John Birch
Society, the Unification Church, Lyndon LaRouche, and to
violent factions such as the militias. They knew they couldn't
shoot the message, so they settled for shooting the messenger.
To implement the smear campaign, W. Alton Jones Foundation
helped found the Clearinghouse on Environmental
Advocacy and Research (CLEAR) in 1993 with two grants
totaling $145,000. In the same year Jones gave numerous
grants in the $20,000 to $30,000 range to small local
organizations that agreed to conduct smears against wise use.
15
17. The Sierra Club engaged private investigator David Helvarg to
write an anti-wise use tirade titled The War Against the
Greens claiming a conspiracy of violence by wise users against
environmentalists. Helvarg's sponsors also funded a
road show for him to tie wise use to an alleged far-right
terrorist network.
16
The EGA foundations and their grant-driven environmentalist
dependents spent millions on related media saturation
projects designed to identify the words "wise use" with
"violence" in the public mind. Reliance on The Big Lie revealed
grant-driven environmentalists as intellectually and morally
bankrupt, and the technique backfired, just as EGA members
Donald and Dudley foresaw.
Grass roots environmentalists saw that big-money foundations
controlled the "mainstream" environmental movement,
which they felt had sold out true reform for pallid
incrementalism. They deserted by the hundred thousand,
preferring to
form scattered local and regional groups of their own. The
Wilderness Society and Sierra Club were hit particularly hard,
losing 125,000 members and 130,000 members, respectively, in
1994.
17
Most devastating for the foundations, an icon of the Left, author
and syndicated columnist Alexander Cockburn, aired
their dirty laundry in the progressive flagship, The Nation. "For
years now," wrote Cockburn in August 1995, "David
Helvarg has been backed by environmental groups such as the
Sierra Club to investigate and smear the Wise Use
18. movement by any means necessary. This goes back to the early
1990s when the Environmental Grantmakers
Association offered a de facto bounty for material discrediting
Wise Users as (a) a front for corporations or (b) part of a
far-right terrorist network."
Cockburn--an equal opportunity critic who routinely berates the
wise use movement for its failings--deplored the smear
tactic. He wrote, "And so we have the unlovely sight of Helvarg
behaving like an F.B.I. agent. He prowls across literature
tables at Wise Use meetings and ties all the names on the
pamphlets, letterheads and books into his 'terror network.'
The trouble is, he never makes his case. Helvarg never comes
up with the terrorist conspiracy he proclaims, because
there hasn't been one."
18
Indeed. What there has been, and what environmentalists cannot
confront, is a potent movement subversive of
environmentalism's articles of faith. That is why they resort to a
hoax rather than lively debate on the issues.
Although it would be rash to propose wise use's articles of
faith--it is a diverse movement--some of the following
principles would probably find wide agreement among those
who provide the material goods to all of humanity:
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1) Humans, like all organisms, must use natural resources to
survive. This fundamental verity is never addressed by
19. environmental ideology. The simple fact that humans must get
their food, clothing and shelter from the environment is
either ignored or obliquely deplored in quasi-suicidal plaints
such as, "I would rather see a blank space where I am--at
least I wouldn't be harming anything."
If environmentalism were to acknowledge our necessary use of
the earth, the ideology would lose its meaning. To grant
legitimacy to the human use of the environment would be to
accept the unavoidable environmental damage that is the
price of our survival. Once that price is acceptable, the moral
framework of environmental ideology becomes irrelevant
and the issues become technical and economic.
2) The earth and its life are tough and resilient, not fragile and
delicate. Environmentalists tend to be catastrophists,
seeing any human use of the earth as damage and massive
human use of the earth as a catastrophe. An
environmentalist motto is "We all live downstream," the
viewpoint of hapless victims.
Wise users, on the other hand, tend to be cornucopians, seeing
themselves as stewarding and nurturing the bountiful
earth as it stewards and nurtures them. A wise use motto is "We
all live upstream," the viewpoint of responsible
individuals.
The difference in sense of life is striking. Environmentalism by
its very nature promotes feelings of guilt for existing, which
naturally degenerate into pessimism, self-loathing and
depression.
Wise use by its very nature promotes feelings of competence to
live in the world, generating curiosity, learning, and
optimism toward improving the earth for the massive use of
future generations.
20. The glory of the "dominant Western worldview" so scorned by
environmental ideologists is its metaphor of progress: the
starburst, an insatiable and interminable outreach after a
perpetually flying goal. Environmentalists call humanity a
cancer
on the earth; wise users call us a joy.
If there is a single, tight expression of the wise use sense of
life, it has to be the final stanza of Shelley's Prometheus
Unbound. I think wise users will recognize themselves in these
lines:
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seem omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope itself creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory!
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3) We only learn about the world through trial and error. The
universe did not come with a set of instructions, nor did our
minds. We cannot see the future. Thus, the only way we humans
can learn about our surroundings is through trial and
error. Even the most sophisticated science is systematized trial
and error. Environmental ideology fetishizes nature to the
point that we cannot permit ourselves errors with the
environment, ending in no trials and no learning.
There will always be abusers who do not learn. People of good
will tend to deal with abuse by education, incentive, clear
21. rules and administering appropriate penalties for incorrigibles.
4) Our limitless imaginations can break through natural limits to
make earthly goods and carrying capacity virtually
infinite. Just as settled agriculture increased earthly goods and
carrying capacity vastly beyond hunting and gathering, so
our imaginations can find ways to increase total productivity by
superseding one level of technology after another. Taught
by the lessons learned from systematic trial and error, we can
close the loops in our productive systems and find
innumerable ways to do more with less.
5) Humanity's reworking of the earth is revolutionary,
problematic and ultimately benevolent. Of the tenets of wise
use,
this is the most oracular. Humanity is itself revolutionary and
problematic. Danger is our symbiote. Yet even the timid are
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part of the human adventure, which has barely begun.
Humanity may ultimately prove to be a force of nature
forwarding some cosmic teleology of which we are yet unaware.
Or not. Humanity may be the universe awakening and becoming
conscious of itself. Or not. Our reworking of the earth
may be of the utmost evolutionary benevolence and importance.
Or not. We don't know. The only way to see the future
is to be there.
As the environmental debate advances to maturity, the
environmental movement must accept and incorporate many of
22. these wise use precepts if it is to survive as a social and
political force.
Establishment Interventionism, as represented by the large
foundation and their grant-driven client organizations, must
find practical ways to accommodate private property rights and
entrepreneurial economic growth.
Eco-socialism's collectivist program must find practical ways to
accommodate individual economic liberties in its
bureaucratic command-and-control approach.
Deep Ecology's biocentrism must find practical ways to
accommodate anthropocentrism and technological progress.
To accomplish this necessary reform, environmentalists of all
persuasions will have to face their ideological blind spots
and see their own belief systems as wise users see them, i.e., in
a critical and practical light.
This is a most difficult change for ideological
environmentalists. Failure to reform environmentalism from
within will invite
regulation from without or doom the movement to irrelevancy
as the wise use movement lives the pastoral ideal in the
middle landscape, defining the meaning of America.
1. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the
Pastoral Ideal in America, Oxford University Press, New
York, 1964, p. 3.
2. Arthur O. Lovejoy, et al., A Documentary History of
Primitivism and Related Ideas, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,
1935, p. 369.
3. José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, trans. anon.,
23. (first published in Spanish, 1930), reissued 1993 by
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, p. 82.
4. Bill Devall and George Sessions, eds., Deep Ecology: Living
as if Nature Mattered, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake
City, 1985, passim.
5. Edith C. Stein, The Environmental Sourcebook, Lyons &
Burford, New York, 1992, p. 6. Victor B. Scheffer,
"Environmentalism's Articles of Faith," Northwest
Environmental Journal, Vol. 5:1, Spring/Summer 1989, pp. 99-
108.
7. Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb, Trashing the Economy: How
Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America, Free
Enterprise Press, Bellevue, Washington, 2nd ed., 1994, pp. 57-
67 et passim.
8. Taped sessions of the Environmental Grantmakers
Association 1992 Annual Fall Retreat, Conference Recording
Service, Berkeley, California, 1992. Session 2: "North
American Forests: Coping With Multiple Use and Abuse;"
Session
19: "Environmental Legislation: Opportunity for Impact and
Change;" Session 23: "Media Strategies for Environmental
Protection."
9. Alan M. Gottlieb, ed., The Wise Use Agenda, Free Enterprise
Press, Bellevue, Washington, 1989. This document
was the result of the 1988 Wise Use Strategy Conference and
consists of recommendations for natural resource use
from 125 of the 250 conference participants.
10. Michael Kelley, "The Road to Paranoia," The New Yorker,
Vol. LXXI, No. 17, June 19, 1995, p. 60. 11. William
Empson, Some Versions of Pastoral, New Directions, New
24. York, 1974, p. 6 et passim.
12. W. Alton Jones Foundation, The Wise Use Movement,
Charlottesville, Virginia, 1992. 13. Taped session of the
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Environmental Grantmakers Association 1992 Annual Fall
Retreat, Conference Recording Service, Berkeley, California,
1992. Session 26: "The Wise Use Movement: Threats and
Opportunities."
14. The Wilderness Society, The Wise Use Movement: Strategic
Analysis and Fifty State Review, prepared by
MacWilliams Cosgrove Snider, Boston, 1992. …
ENVIRONMENTALISM: ITS ARTICLES OF FAITH
Northwest Environmental Journal Vol. 5:1, (1989) p. 100
Victor Scheffer
Here I offer an interpretation of environmentalism, a body of
principles and practices so recently manifest in national thought
that its meanings are still disputed. It is called, for example, "a
theology of the earth," "a religion of self restraint," and "a
science rooted in resource management and ecology." I define it
broadly as "a movement toward understanding humankind's
natural bases of support while continuously applying what is
learned toward perpetuating those bases."
The word environmentalism entered the American vernacular
during the 1960s. An editorial in Science (Klopsteg 1966) noted
that "one of the newest fads in Washington-and elsewhere-is
'environmental science.' The term has political potency even if
its meaning is vague and questionable." Environmentalism was
at first perceived by the public as merely a response to a crisis,
25. but it quickly proved more than that. As Lord Ashby (1978:3)
explained to a Stanford University group:
A crisis is a situation that will pass; it can be resolved by
temporary hardship, temporary adjustment, technological and
political expedients. What we are experiencing is not a crisis, it
is a climacteric. For the rest of man's history on earth. . . he
will have to live with problems of population, of resources, of
pollution.
The vision of environmentalism is to preserve those things in
nature which will allow the human enterprise, or civilization, to
endure and improve. (I use the word nature for the world
without humans, a concept which-like the square root of minus
one-is unreal, but useful.) Because civilization depends
absolutely on surroundings that are healthful and stimulating,
environmentalism aims to protect both material and spiritual
values. At the risk of oversimplifying, 1 review five articles of
faith which support and energize the environmental movement.
They reflect ideas developed by "earthkeepers" from the time of
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) down to the present.
1) All things are connected. The cosmos is a set of
dependencies so complex that its boundaries lie forever beyond
understanding. Simply lifting a spadeful of garden soil disturbs
a trillion protistan lives, impinges on the lifter's muscles and
mind, and changes the landscape. The poet who mused, "Thou
canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star," was struck
by the unitary connectedness of all matter (Thompson 1966
[1897]:19). He was an environmentalist before his time. Now
we technological beings have Spun a web of change around the
whole earth and nearby space. Our artifacts range in scale from
radiations and molecules to mountains and lakes. Yet never will
we understand completely the spinoff effects of the
environmental changes that we create, nor will we measure Our
own,' independent influence in their creation. Consider the
mysterious decline in the numbers of fur seals breeding on
Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Their population has fallen to about
38 percent of its 1956 level (Chapman 1981:200; Kozloff
26. 1986:14; Scheffer and Kenyon 1989). Six reasons proposed for
the decline are:
1. unintended harassment by the biologists who study the seal
herd;
2. overkill, or wasteful commercial cropping of the herd;
3. decreased resistance to disease, or decreased fertility, or
both, as a result of anthropogenic poisons in the feeding waters
of the seals;
4. deprivation of seal foods by eastern Bering Sea commercial
fisheries, which have growl explosively since 1959 (now taking
1.5 million tons a year);
5. entanglement in, or ingestion of, plastic debris floating in the
wake of commercial vessels; and
6. changes in weather, such as those attending El Nino Norte,
which depress the survival rate of the younger seals.
While none of these reasons has convinced the fur-seal
biologists, they are betting even that human fouling of the ocean
was the cause versus the concealed forces of nature.
Consider also the foxes, the geese, and the rats of Kiska Island,
Alaska. In the spring of 1986, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service dropped 50,000 poison, baits on windswept, treeless
Kiska to eliminate its fox population and thereby pave the way
for the reintroduction of Aleutian Canada geese from fox-free
Aleutian Islands (Alaska Magazine 1986). The Kiska foxes were
not native; they had been introduced decades earlier by fur
trappers. Some years after their introduction, they extirpated the
local geese. The government's poison campaign was successful.
Unfortunately, Kiska also supports a rat population that
originated in military traffic during World War Two. So, up for
question is whether the rats, now free of predation by foxes,
will multiply and themselves become an even greater menace to
a restored goose population than the foxes could have been.
2) Earthly goods are limited. This truth finds expression in the
27. term carrying capacity. As applied to people, carrying capacity
is the number of individuals that the earth can support before a
limit is reached beyond which the quality of life must worsen
and Homo, the human animal, becomes less human. One reason
we humans unlike animals in the wild-are prone to exceed
carrying capacity is that our wants exceed our needs. This is
what essayist Wendell Berry means when he writes (1987:15)
that "whereas animals are usually restrained by the limits of
physical appetites, humans have mental appetites that can be far
more gross and capacious. . . ." Persons who understand
carrying capacity and its rule of limits will (I believe) generally
accept two kinds of government interference: (1) control of land
uses such that no use destroys the recuperative powers of the
land; and (2) control of the birthrate.
Land-use control, based on use classification (zoning) and
enforcement, is expanding to include ocean-use control. In
1958, the United Nations opened a series of conferences aimed
at protecting the health and permanence of the territorial seas,
the high seas, the deep sea bed, and marine living resources.
And, in 1982, a Convention on the Law of the Sea was signed
by 119 nations; the United States, regrettably, was not among
them (United Nations 1983). Not to say that the United States
was unconcerned; witness (among other laws) the Marine
Mammal Protection Act of 1972; the Marine Protection,
Research, and Marine Sanctuaries Act of 1972; and the Fishery
Conservation and Management Act of 1976. The implications of
ocean-use control are notably striking in the Pacific Northwest,
where a rapidly growing population (Morrill and Downing
1986) is bringing problems of resource allocation in offshore oil
production, fisheries, and saltwater recreation. Common to all
these problems is the question: What decisions can we make
without foreclosing the right of future generations to make
other, and probably wiser, decisions?
Nations have been notoriously unsuccessful in limiting their
birthrates. Governments are usually conceded the right to
interfere-for the common good-with citizen use of land, but not
28. with citizen use of the bedroom. Yet world population has
surged to over five billion and is growing at about 1.6 percent
per year. On the premise that Homo habilis originated 2.5
million years ago, about 4 percent of all humans who have ever
lived are still alive (Exter 1987). "Nearly 40% of [the earth's]
potential terrestrial net primary productivity is used directly,
co-opted, or foregone because of human activities" (Vitousek et
al. 1986:368).
No one has the moral right, and should not have the legal right,
to overtax carrying capacity either by reducing the productivity
of the land or by bringing into the world more than his or her
"share" of new lives. Who is to decide that share will perhaps
be the most difficult social question for future generations.
3) Nature's way is best. Woven into the fabric of
environmentalism is the belief that natural methods and
materials should be favored over artificial and synthetic ones,
when there's a clear choice. Witness the vast areas of the globe
poisoned or degraded by' the technological economy of our
century.
Moreover, biological discoveries are daily revealing new
aspects of the remarkable fit of every wild plant and animal to
its environment. The wild things seem to know ways of survival
that we have never learned, or have forgotten. E. B. White
(1962:67) said it best: "I would be more optimistic about a
bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can
outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and
respecting her seniority."
Many environmentalists, professing their faith in natural
wisdom, endorse a method of agriculture variously known as
organic, alternative, regenerative, sustainable, or low-input
(U.S. Department of Agriculture 1980). It is a thrift not fi r
from peasant agriculture insofar as it rejects those conventional
farming practices which bring soil erosion, exhaustion of soil
fertility, salination from irrigation water, desertification, and
the pollution of soils (as well as downstream water) by chemical
fertilizers and persistent biocides. Conventional farming,
29. especially on the large areas that support agribusiness, also
brings increased susceptibility to the diseases and pests of high-
yield varieties grown in monocultures. Organic farming, by
contrast, maintains healthier soils and crops. It is suited to crop-
livestock interdependence and is not limited by size. While it is
more labor intensive than conventional farming, it is less energy
consumptive. "The best farming," writes Berry, "will continue
to rely on the attentiveness and particularity that go with the
use of the hands" (1987:132).
In listing the virtues of organic farming, I don't mean to imply
that the simple agrarian and pastoral economies of the early
nineteenth century in America will, or should be, revived. I do
mean that the practices within those economies which express
deep concern for the future of the land will be adopted.
The recent bioregional movement, rooted in awareness of place,
is one expression of concern for natural values. In 1984, at the
first bioregional congress, in Missouri, a committee reported
that "bioregionalism recognizes, nurtures, sustains and
celebrates our local connections with: land, plants and animals;
rivers, lakes and oceans; families, friends and neighbors;
community; native traditions; and local systems of production
and trade" (Sale 1984:724). A utopian concept, though useful.
Wilderness regions demonstrate with beautiful clarity that
Nature's way is best. To the supporters of environmentalism
they are sacred shrines. The Wilderness Act of 1964 declared
that a wilderness "is an area where the earth and community of
life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor
who does not remain" (P.L.88-577, Sec. 2). To enjoy a
wilderness is a privilege by no means confined to a camping-
under-the-stars elite. "It is," explains commentator George F.
Will, "an aristocratic pleasure, democratically open to all"
(1982:18). Wilderness lies very close to the core of the
environmental ethic.
4) The survival of humankind depends on natural diversity.
Until yesterday, geologically speaking, the earth was incredibly
rich in landforms and habitats, peculiarities, and commonalities.
30. It was the stage for evolutionary experiments which produced a
bat weighing only 0.07 of an ounce (less than the dry weight of
tea in a tea bag) and a whale weighing 200 tons (Scheffer 1974;
Wood 1976:51). As a result of those and other experiments, the
earth now hosts 10 million (or more?) species representing a
range of genetic diversity that strains the imagination. Although
species by the billions have vanished through natural extinction
or transformation, the present rate of extinction is thought to be
at least 400 times faster than at the beginning of the Industrial
Age (Myers 1985; Raup 1986). Humankind's destruction of
habitats is overwhelmingly to blame.
Diversity, or species richness, is an ancient and accomplished
pattern; it "works." Its maintenance calls for protecting critical
habitats such as tropical rainforests and temperate old-growth
forests; wetlands; deep primeval lakes; prairies; marine
estuaries, reefs and islands; fragile tundras and deserts. Even
where habitats now enjoy some degree of protection, special
care for the imperiled species within them is vital. Witness the
desperate, multimillion-dollar campaigns in our own generation
to save the California condor and the black-footed ferret. We
cannot hope to save all the endangered species. But, in the pure
act of trying, we (as the only planning animal) can employ our
unique talents to keep the earth livable for as many other
species as possible. Their future is our future; their destiny is
ours.
Ongoing efforts to protect the spotted owls inhabiting thirteen
national forests of the Pacific Northwest illustrate the
difficulty, within an atmosphere of strong controversy, of
saving a rare wildlife species (U.S. Forest Service 1988). What
is at stake is more than the survival of owls, it is the survival of
commercially valuable, old growth or mature timberland where
the owls nest and feed, The thirteen forests contain 4.1 million
acres of "currently suitable spotted owl habitat" having a
carrying capacity for about 1,290 breeding pairs. The Forest
Service plan for protecting the owls calls for a ban on logging
and other development on 347,700 acres having a carrying
31. capacity for about 270 pairs. If the plan carries, owl protection
will "cost" annually 163 million board feet of timber having a
net value of $28 million, while 455 to 910 jobs will be lost. And
the plan will "cost" a thousand pairs of owls. .
Public interest in the plan remains high, especially on the part
of environmentalists and persons dependent on logging. The
Forest Service reports that, between mid-1986 and mid-1988, it
received nearly 42,000 comments on a draft version of the plan.
The Case of the Owls in the Old-Growth remi.lds us that
publicity focused on one symbolic species like the spotted owl
(or the gray wolf, or trumpeter swan, or desert pupfish) can
impart a far broader message: Saving habitat must precede the
saving of diversity.
5) Environmentalism is radical in the sense of demanding
fundamental change. It calls for changes in present political
systems, in the reach of the law, in the methods of agriculture
and industry, in the structure of capitalism (the profit system),
in international dealings, and in education. Thus, biology, the
science of living, must receive greater support. Here I mean
biology as broad enlightenment aimed at increasing, among
other things, personal responsibility for the biosphere.
The implementation of environmentalism will be extremely
difficult. It will require, in the words of philosopher J. Baird
Callicott (1980:338), "discipline, sacrifice, retrenchment, and
massive economic reform, tantamount to a virtual revolution in
prevailing attitudes and life styles." The United Nations World
Commission on Environment and Development recently
emphasized that "it is impossible to separate economic
development issues from environmental issues; many forms of
development erode the environmental resources upon which
they must be based, and environmental degradation can
undermine economic development" (United Nations 1987:3).
The Commission's central point is that the "macroeconomic
system" must change and, by implication, that environmentalism
must eventually be accepted as the best of all economies.
Although the goals of environmentalism and exploitation are
32. poles apart, many environmentalists believe that a middle
ground is attainable, if indeed it must be unquiet ground.
Environmentalism, along with the liberation movements of the
1960s, grew rapidly while we Americans were struggling to
change outmoded attitudes and institutions. The sweeping
question we asked ourselves was this: If we believe that a
permanent, sustainable biosphere is possible, how must we treat
the one we now inhabit? So we planned to make wiser use of
materials and energy; to live less wastefully and more
sparingly. The blueprints we drafted were radical, but
necessary. They described a future in which:
· We will, by reducing at the source and by recycling, cut back
the tonnage of unused materials or "wastes" that now end up in
dumps, waterways, and incinerators.
· We will force manufacturers to build goods that are longer
lasting and more easily repaired and, thus, will we attack
planned obsolescence for profit.
· We will substitute plentiful materials (such as aluminum and
iron) for scarcer ones (such as copper and lead). Minerals in the
earth's crust are finite. According to a Brookings Institution
estimate published in 1977, the median life expectancy for 29
important minerals was only 40 years at that time (Tilton
1977:6-7).
· We will apply triage in exploiting the fossil fuels-petroleum,
coal, and natural gas-which have long driven our economy.
What fraction should we leave untouched for persons yet
unborn? Should we quit burning these fuels solely for cheap
energy and ration them for future use as unique chemical bases?
· We will use groundwater no faster than it accumulates.
Witness the alarming decline in volume of the great Ogallala
Aquifer which underlies six states from Texas to Nebraska.
· We will save energy by lowering house and office
temperatures, by installing thermal insulation, and by switching
to hour-budgeted heating.
· We will increase tenfold or more our dependence on renewable
sources of energy: solar (including biomass conversion), wind,
33. ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), tidal and wave, and
geothermal. Hydropower will lose its appeal as, one by one, we
lose our rich valleys and rushing streams to reservoirs. Energy
from nuclear fission will lose its appeal as we realize its
awesome costs in building new generators and dismantling old
ones, in paying safety-insurance premiums, and in storing lethal
radwastes through millennia to come. The bitter experience of
the Washington Public power Supply System (WPPSS) with
nuclear power generation is the story of a crunch between an
older kind of planning based largely on trends in power demand
and a newer kind based on "econometric forecasting" (Hill
1981:110). The newer kind brings into the planning equation
factors such as citizen participation, consideration of
environmental impact, conservation (in the special sense of
energy saving) and, in the end, better understanding of the real
costs of nuclear power generation. For example, in the early
1970s, WPPSS had drawn plans for five nuclear plants to be
financed by the sale of bonds. By 1983, outstanding bonds
amounted to $8.3 billion, and WPPSS had become the largest
issuer of tax-free bond!! in American history (Bull 1983). In
mid-1983, however, WPPSS defaulted on a $2.25 billion debt
(Blumenthal 1984). Only one plant, at Hanford, was ever
completed. Lawsuits generated during the history of WPPSS
(known to Wall Street as Whoops!) continue as I write in 1989.
· As we move to protect our planetary bases of support we will
keep steadily in mind the priceless value of human health. The
harmful effects of human-introduced poisons-heavy metals and
a host of synthetic chemicals-loom ever more dangerous. Many
effects are time delayed and hence difficult to trace to their
causes. Many surface with shocking impact in the body's
nervous and reproductive systems, and as neoplasms. Witness
the finding that airborne lead (Pb) reaching the brain of a young
child can depress his or her IQ, and that the incidence of
testicular cancer among Caucasians doubled in a recent 40-year
period (Schottenfeld and Warshauer 1982:947 -957; Needleman,
Geiger, and Frank 1985). To study environmental poisons is to
34. study their sources, their pathways into the body, and their
impacts-both immediate and postponed. Special targets of
concern are the hundreds of modern biocides: the chemicals that
we use recklessly to kill unwanted plants and animals. Better
ways are known of keeping pests in check-including more
efficient methods of land management and biocontrol (the
control of life with life).
If I have rightly interpreted the message of environmentalism,
the foregoing articles of faith are a morality of life or death for
civilization. They are guidelines which, if not followed during
the next global energy crunch, or economic recession, or
pandemic, or military crisis, will again delay us in reaching that
steady-state economy which has always been the goal of the
environmental movement. Those who will lead the movement-
the thoughtful and considerate in many walks of life-will
continue to teach that the future of humanity depends on
knowing the planet where humanity evolved. Knowing will
bring respect, and respect will bring healing and perpetual care.
Victor Scheffer worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service for over thirty years. He studied Alaska fur seals of the
Pribilof Islands, is an authority on whales and was the first
chair of the Marine Mammal Commission. Scheffer wrote The
Year of the Whale (1969) which received the Burroughs Medal.
His last two books were Natural History of Marine Mammals
(1981) and Spires of Form: Glimpses of Evolution (1985).
Week 3 (B) Narrative - History of Environmental Political
Thought Part 2
· Read the essay "Wise Use: What Do We Believe?" by Ron
Arnold.
No discussion of environmental policy development would be
complete without acknowledging those who rebelled against the
environmental movement and the sweep of new regulations of
the 1960s and 1970s. This revolt has been dubbed the Wise-Use
35. Movement. Though this label didn’t stick until the late 1980s,
the movement really began in the late 1970s.
This movement was the counter to pastoralism’s deep ecology;
it swung the political pendulum to a more anthropocentric view
of environmental policy. It particularly manifested itself in the
western United States, where a majority of lands are managed
by the federal government. Ranchers, miners, loggers, private
property owners all began to reassert their belief that human
ingenuity can solve environmental problems. This western
specific part of the wise use movement was dubbed the
Sagebrush Rebellion. This movement revolted against the
federal oversight of natural resources they claimed to have been
managing properly for generations. This movement manifests
itself in the state and federal government rights debate which
will be discussed later this semester. For more information
about the history of the Rebellion, click here (Links to an
external site.).
The following case study will help illustrate what the Wise-Use
movement is, its potential impact, and will be the focus of this
week's discussion.
Case Study: Utah prairie dog
Some of the battles in the wise-use movement are being played
out right here in southern Utah. One of these cases is the Utah
prairie dog. Because it is right in our own backyard (no pun
intended), the Utah prairie dog is an interesting case study in
the wise use movement and the issue of private property rights,
and environmental protection and stewardship.
The purpose of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Links to
an external site.) “is to protect and recover imperiled species
and the ecosystems upon which they depend.” The Utah prairie
dog was placed on the endangered species list in the 1970s and
then upgraded to “threatened” in the 1980s. To manage the
species, the US Fish and Wildlife Service issues “takings”
permits to remove the prairie dog from private lands. There are
only so many permits issued per year so as to not adversely
impact the species population.
36. Many see this as an overreach of federal powers especially as it
pertains to private property rights. A group of Iron County
citizens began PETPO and won a favorable decision in 2014 to
allow more “takings” of the Utah prairie dog from private
property because it is found in only one state (hence, the
constitutional interstate commerce clause does not apply
according to the appellants). The case is on appeal. In the
interim, it is being hailed as a victory for the wise-use
movement and environmentalists decry it as a weakening of
important protections for endangered species. For more
information about the case, click here (Links to an external
site.).
For more information about PETPO, click here (Links to an
external site.).
For a copy of the 2014 ruling, click here (Links to an external
site.).
Supplemental information:
· Environmentalism's Article of Faith
Actions
· More information about the Sagebrush Rebellion