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What does the author mean by the statement "Nearly all environmental policy disputes are, at heart, contests over values"?  Policy disputes attempt to balance out how we are to morally interact with the natural world. "...in fact, almost all of them involve a fundamental disagreement over...

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What does the author mean by the statement "Nearly all environmental policy disputes are,

at heart, contests over values"?


 Policy disputes attempt to balance out how we are to morally interact with

the natural world. "...in fact, almost all of them involve a fundamental

disagreement over how humans ought to interact with the natural world"

(2).




Preservationism (1830-1911)


 - George Catlin, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir

- "celebrated wild nature as a source of spiritual renewal" (2)


- Wilderness Preservation Act (1964), the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968), and the

National Trails Act (1968).




Conservationism (early 1900s)


 - "advocated the prudent use of natural resources"

- Federal government set aside forest reserves


- 1905: created U.S. Forest Service




Postwar environmentalism


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 - "More concerned with fighting pollution and protecting biological

diversity than with preserving pristine natural areas or managing natural

resources efficiently"

- Aldo Leopold: Sand County Almanac


- Limits-to-growth thesis, Donella Meadows et all 1972; recognized importance of

relationships and feedback loops in complex systems


---- Human population is outrunning the earth's capacity to support it




Deep ecology


 - Ecocentric: treat the world as "an intrinsically dynamic, inter -connected

web of relations in which there are no absolutely discrete entities and no

absolute dividing lines between the living and the nonliving, the animate

and the inanimate, or the human and the nonhuman

- Tests on the premise of "biospherical egalitarianism" - the inherent and equal value of all

living things


- Human quality of life depends on maintaining a deep connection to, rather than simply a

respectful relationship with, other forms of life




What values and beliefs characterize the cornucopian perspective?


 Unlike environmentalists, cornucopians place a preeminent value on

economic growth; suggests abundance, even limitlessness. Believe that

environmental restrictions threaten their economic well -being or the



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economic health of their community. Also fear that such restrictions entail

unacceptable limits by government on individual freedom.




Technological optimism


 Cornucopians have boundless confidence in humans' ability to devise

technological solutions to resource shortages (Julian Simon, Herman Kahn)




Individual liberty


 - The freedom to do as one wishes without interference

- Criticize environmental regulations not only for limiting individual freedom but also for taking

out of the economy resources that would otherwise be used productively




Free-market environmentalism


 - They propose that the best way to protect the environment is to ensure

that individuals can pursue material prosperity

- The role of government is to assign property rights in the earth's resources and let the market

dictate allocations of the goods and services that flow from these resources




What are some policy issues on which there are relatively small differences in the values of

environmentalists and cornucopians? On what issues are the differences in values relatively

large?




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 - The schism between environmentalists and cornucopians arises out of

different worldviews

- Environmentalists range from those who believe that all life has value to those who yearn for

simpler, less harried times to those with practical concerns about the impact of pollution on

human health or quality of life


- Similar variation among cornucopians: some place a higher value on economic growth than

they do on the aesthetic or moral importance of the natural world; others are avid outdoor

enthusiasts who simply have more faith in individuals' than in government's ability to protect

natural amenities.




What does Layzer mean by the term problem definition? Why is establishing the dominant

problem definition an important objective for advocates on either side of an environmental

policy conflict?


 Because the values of activists on both sides are entrenched,

environmental politics consists largely of trying to gain the support of the

unaware or undecided rather than trying to convert the already committed

(6)




Layzer notes that "a large majority of Americans profess their support for the goals of the

environmental movement." Do you think that this statement is true? What do you think it means

about the values held by Americans, in relation to the environmentalist and cornucopian

perspectives? How has this broad support for environmental protection affected the advocacy

tactics of cornucopians?




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