Presentation prepared for a series of lectures on Environmentalism for PS 240 introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Spring 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.
Presentation prepared for a series of lectures on Environmentalism for PS 240 introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Spring 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.
A Powerpoint describing the Environmental Justice Tour for an undergraduate learning experience.
Students often recognize that air, water, and soil pollution have negative effects on human health but may not recognize that these problems exist in their own communities. In many parts of the United States there are sources of pollution located very close to neighborhoods especially in low-income areas. The field trip experience described here explores the relationship between economically depressed neighborhoods and environmental problems through the lens of social justice. This field trip involves witnessing how several low-income neighborhoods are located near coal-fired power plants, open-air coal ash landfills, chemical plants, and a Superfund site. During the experience students have the opportunity to make observations and discuss what they have witnessed in the context of why these problems exist, who is responsible for these problems and how they might be fixed. This field trip experience was developed by Mr. Tim Darst at the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center in Louisvile, Kentucky and is offered on a regular basis for college students, high school groups and community members. This kind of experience could be adapted to many other parts of the country that experience environmental problems, either urban (as described above) or rural (i.e., agricultural problems, deforestation, etc.).
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A Powerpoint describing the Environmental Justice Tour for an undergraduate learning experience.
Students often recognize that air, water, and soil pollution have negative effects on human health but may not recognize that these problems exist in their own communities. In many parts of the United States there are sources of pollution located very close to neighborhoods especially in low-income areas. The field trip experience described here explores the relationship between economically depressed neighborhoods and environmental problems through the lens of social justice. This field trip involves witnessing how several low-income neighborhoods are located near coal-fired power plants, open-air coal ash landfills, chemical plants, and a Superfund site. During the experience students have the opportunity to make observations and discuss what they have witnessed in the context of why these problems exist, who is responsible for these problems and how they might be fixed. This field trip experience was developed by Mr. Tim Darst at the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center in Louisvile, Kentucky and is offered on a regular basis for college students, high school groups and community members. This kind of experience could be adapted to many other parts of the country that experience environmental problems, either urban (as described above) or rural (i.e., agricultural problems, deforestation, etc.).
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The "Tragedy of the Commons" is one of the most influential scientific publications ever yet it is widely misunderstood. The short presentation provides a critical appraisal and links to read more.
This Power Point presentation is an overview of the green movement and environmentalism designed for students with reading problems. Most every card is read aloud and there is music provided in the background. The sound quality is not great, but the student can understand what is said.
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Environmentalism
1. ENVIRONMENTALISM
A belief in and concern for the importance and influence of
environment within a society.
https://indianexpress.com/article/what-is/what-is-the-chipko-movement-google-doodle-5111644/
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2. Objectives & Sources
• To enable the students to identify the relationship between environmental
issues & political thought
• To encourage the students to take subjects related to environmentalism as
topic of their research
• To guide students for competitive examinations like UPSC/NET etc
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4. ENVIRONMENTALISM
• Not a new phenomenon
• Legislations... 19th century
• Distinct issue 1970s
• Reasons for Rise of Environmentalism
-Severe problems related to Air pollution, Pesticide in
Agriculture, Depletion of Non-renewable resources, Climate
Change etc
Air pollution now biggest health risk in India, says report -
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/air-pollution-now-biggest-health-risk-in-india-says-
report/article32912916.ece
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5. Conferences
• The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm was the first world
conference to make the environment a major issue. One of the major results of the
Stockholm conference was the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
• The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the
'Earth Summit', was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992.
• The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg adopted a Political
Declaration and Implementation Plan which included provisions covering a set of activities and
measures to be taken in order to achieve development that takes into account respect for the
environment.
• In 2012 -Rio de Janeiro, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (also
known as Rio+20) resulted in a document containing clear and practical steps for the
implementation of sustainable development.
• In 2015, the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development gave birth to Agenda 2030 and
its seventeen sustainable development goals [ New York]
https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment
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6. • Philosophy of Nature...Ancient subject
• Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill...sketched and appreciated diverse
pictures of nature...Mostly in this tradition – nature untouched by
humanity is utterly without value
• Industrial Revolution time attitude towards nature changed...love of
nature has grown...even 2 movements each progressing with equal
rapidity
• The insight humanity has potential to profoundly affect nature – GP
Marsh, Man and Nature 1864
• After WWII eloquently expressed...A. Leopold, R. Carson (Silent Spring)...
• Individual acts on immediate self interest, but, together we produce...
outcomes that are worse for all of us – realisation...solution mutual
coercion mutually agreed upon (Hardin)
• So, 1960s &70s writings brought...to political theory & philosophy
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7. Ideologically Environmental Thoughts
REFORMIST: ENVIRONMENTALISM
• Sustainable growth
• Ecological modernisation
• Use of renewable energy
• Production of environmental
goods
• Environmental damage not cost
free
– Increase in temperature, decrease
in output
•Anthropocentric view
•Environmental solution coexist
with existing political structures
RADICAL : ECOLOGICAL
• Economic growth incompatible
with environmental protection
• The limits to growth-The
message of this book still
holds today
• Eco-centric
•Intrinsic value to both humans &
non-humans
• Socio-political changes
required
•Authoritarian state to protect
environment, because people are
not prudent
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8. A distinct ideology?
There are works which connect environment but, Green Political Parties – distinct
one...New political system required
1980s Green’s entered legislature in Germany
The German Green Party slogan of the 1980s —“We are neither right nor
left, but ahead”—this appeal ...the new social movements ...tends to cut
across traditional class, party politics, and socioeconomic affiliations to
politicize aspects of everyday life traditionally seen as outside politics.
ENVIRONMENTALISM :
Democracy, Justice, Liberalism
Green political theorist explored relationship between
environmental movement & political process
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9. ENVIRONMENTALISM & DEMOCRACY
• What is the relationship between Environmentalism & Democracy?
Value: People’s view about how world ought to be
Interest: What is good for the people either in the long term or in the short term
Preference: What people currently want
People often act politically on preferences (emotion) rather than on
interest/values (reason)
However, Deliberative Democracy... Participatory Democracy
ENVIRONMENTALISM & CITIZENSHIP
Notion of virtue- Green Virtue...Humility & Moderation
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10. Environmentalism &
Liberalism
• Liberalism talks about neutral state...
• Liberalism allows each to do as they pleasure...
– However such things are against environmentalism
So certain difficult questions are emerging...
misunderstanding of liberalism...liberal commitment to
toleration and diversity itself...help to resolve
incompatibility...if at all
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11. ENVIRONMENTALISM
& JUSTICE
Aristotle’s
Justice
Distributive
– benefits &
burdens
Corrective –
Punishment &
Compensation
• Distributive
– Environment as a resource
– Environment as a liability...duty
– 1991, Global Warming in an Unequal World - A Case of Environmental
Colonialism by Anil Agarwal & Sunita Narain
• Participatory justice...to be part of decision making/environmental debates
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12. The idea that developing countries like India and
China must share the blame for heating up the
earth and destabilizing its climate, as espoused in a
recent study published in the United States by the
WRI in collaboration with the UN, is an excellent
example of environmental colonialism. The report
of the WRI is based less on science and more on
politically motivated and mathematical jugglery. Its
main intention seems to be to blame developing
countries for global warming and perpetuate the
current global inequality in the use of the earth’s
environment and its resources.
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Gujarat
13. India & Environmentalism
• When started?
• What is West’s Environmentalism and East’s
Environmentalism?
• What are the 2 phases?
• What criticism against Environmentalists?
• Indian Green Parties
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14. India & Environmentalism
THE RISE AND FALL OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM by
Ramachandra Guha,, Hindustan Times, 2008
THE PAST & PRESENT OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM by
Ramachandra Guha, The Hindu, 2013
On the 27th of March 1973 — exactly 40 (47) years ago — a group of peasants
in a remote Himalayan village stopped a group of loggers from felling a patch
of trees. Thus was born the Chipko movement, and through it the modern
Indian environmental movement itself.
Pastoralists saw their grazing grounds taken over by factories and engineering
colleges...
In the West, the environmental movement had arisen chiefly out of a desire to
protect endangered animal species and natural habitats. In India, however, it
arose out of the imperative of human survival. This was an environmentalism
of the poor, which married the concern of social justice on the one hand with
sustainability on the other. It argued that present patterns of resource use
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15. India & Environmentalism
• Environmental movements were dismissed by their critics as agents of
Western imperialism
• Meanwhile, journalists and scholars had begun more systematically
studying the impact of environmental degradation on
social life across India.
• Elements of an environmental consciousness had, finally, begun to
permeate the middle class.
• In 1991 the Indian economy started to liberalise.
Unfortunately, the votaries of liberalisation mounted an even
more savage attack on environmentalists than did the proponents of
state socialism.
• Meanwhile, the environment continued to deteriorate.
• India today is an environmental basket-case; marked by polluted skies,
dead rivers, falling water-tables, ever-increasing amounts of untreated
wastes, disappearing forests.
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16. • The author focuses on the problems inherent in
environmentalist critiques of the Indian state, and the
inability of their authors to provide a useful analytical
approach for reforming state institutions engaged in
environmental regulation and natural-resource
management. The inherent weaknesses (and
reactionary populism) of Indian environmental debates
are discussed, together with the inability of those
involved to articulate strategies for moving towards
sustainable urban and regional development within the
recent policy phase of deregulation and market
expansion in India.
• https://doi.org/10.1068%2Fa292129
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https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/it-s-time-for-a-green-party-of-india/story-DljkBjA3eqXVMGCA1ZCtdO.html
18. The Green Party of India was established by Professor Trivedi in
1999.
http://www.party.ind.in/index.htm
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22. A major contributory factor to this continuing process of
degradation has been the apathy and corruption of our political
class
A major contributory factor to this continuing process
of degradation has been not only the apathy and
moral degradation, but superciliousness of common
public...
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25. Deliberative Democracy
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095708535
A critical response to traditional models of democracy. Although deliberative
democracy encompasses a broad spectrum of ideas, the motivational aim of
deliberative theory is to legitimize political decisions by creating procedures
that allow democratic decisions to be a result of mutual understanding,
publicly expressed reason, and broadened political inclusion. This position is
contrasted with democratic models that have traditionally relied on ideas of
competing elites, vote aggregation, and private interest maximization.
Whereas traditional models focus on aggregative outcomes (by elites or
individuals), deliberative theory focuses on broadening the deliberative input
from all participants, on creating a sense of public reason, and on creating
procedures that can be seen as acceptable by all stakeholders involved. By
doing so, deliberative democrats seek to transform current systems of
governance, which are often associated with social exclusion, power
asymmetries, and mutual distrust. Deliberative theorists maintain that
political decisions are best created (and thus can be seen as more legitimate)
through a process of public reason formation, which will decrease the
democratic deficits that are currently experienced in most democracies.
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26. Participatory Democracy
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100308454
The 20th-century reincarnation of the ancient Greek ideal of government by
the people (demos). Participatory democracy is direct democracy, in the
sense that all citizens are actively involved in all important decisions. The
youth and student movements of the 1960s, in Europe and America, adopted
direct democracy with enthusiasm. In practice, this meant that all debates
and decisions took place in face-to-face meetings of the whole group. Direct
democracy was especially important in the American New Left, the French
and British student movements, the early women's movements, and the anti-
nuclear and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It was also a feature
of the ecological and community movements that survived into the 1980s and
1990s. The difficulty with participatory democracy is a practical one—that it
complicates and slows down the decision-making process. Its strength is that
it binds individuals to the group through their active involvement in all
decisions. By general agreement, participatory democracy can be effective
only in groups with 500 or fewer active members.
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