Environmental Security Flashcards
While you may interpret terrorism differently as a threat…
- it does not mean that environmental threat is not equally as dangerous
How can you show the environment constituting a threat?
- belongs to everybody, not just states
- COP 21, Paris climate change conference 2015
- Obama speech act, Climate change is our greatest threat (2015)
where does environmental security come from?
- 1960s rising of environmentalist movement back to land movement
What did Rachel carson write in 1962?
- environmental threat of pesticides on environment
what did Paul Ehrlich write in 1986?
- population bomb, insufficient food / resources for everybody
what is marxist critique of environmental security?
- it focuses on the wrong problem, redistribution is the issue , not the acknowledgement of over population
name some non governmental organisations set up to help with environmental problems
- Greenpeace 1971
- Friends of the earth 1969
- WWF 1961
with post cold war increasing cooperation exemplify such as who, stating that climate change has become a direct security threat?
- Prince Charles november 2015 said that the syrian civil war was largely resultant of climate change
- as does Peter H. Gleick
what is another obvious threat of environment other than climate change?
- Japan Tsunami 2011 estimated 15,000 dead
Give mine related deaths in 2010 in Afghan and Columbia
- Afghan = 766
- Columbia = 496
how much did the environmental crime agency for england and wales spend on tackling waste crime between 2012-2013?
- £17 million
- Extra £5 million on an illegal waste tax force
describe the problem of Cocaine production in Columbia:
- 372,000 tonnes of chemicals into environment a year
- 20 million litres of toxins into water ways
(EU is second largest market for cocaine)
quote from Corbyn on fracking:
“it will accelerate climate change, carries significant pollution risks and will deepen our dependency on fossil fuels”
