JOUR 4 The Politics of Evironment

Question 1

Ecological footprint ?

Answer 1

Measure of the nature it takes to sus tain a given population over the course of one year

Question 2

Ratio USA/India and USA /China annual footprint

Answer 2

USA = 8x India
USA= 2x China

Question 3

Holism ?

Answer 3

the view that wholes are more than just the sum of their parts and can’t b merely definded as a collection of their basic constituent

Question 4

Event that marked the begining of env. care

Answer 4

USA 1970: demonstration about environment on Earth Day (big one)

Question 5

Ecologism ?

Answer 5

distinctive green political ideology encompassing those perspective that hold that a sustainable Society required a radical change in our relationship with the non-human world + eco/soc/pol Life.

Question 6

Traditional policy paradigm

Answer 6

approach to the environment that treat each pb discretly, gives priority to the economic growth and result in pièce-meal and tactical policies and end-of-pipe solutions.