Module 12 Flashcards
Recall from Module 5, Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., Court of Appeal, NY (1970) - a case in which neighbours are complaining that smoke, dust and vibration from the Cement Company are a nuisance. The neighbours are appealing the ruling of a lower court which refused to offer an injunction, opting for monetary damages instead, because losses would outweigh the benefits to neighbours; the Cement Company had invested substantially and workers would be displaced.
What happens ?
The Court of Appeal awarded the injunction until monetary damages were paid to the plaintiffs. The judgment was with dissent, the reason being that monetary damages would be a fee to license a wrong.
What is Environmental Degradation?
Environmental degradation is the decline in the natural environment’s ability to sustain life as a result of pollution, inefficient resource use and natural disasters.
What is Environmental Protection?
Environmental protection refers to the efforts we make to preserve natural resources and to prevent or reverse the destruction of the natural environment over time.
how environmental destruction affect the economy
Environmental destruction adds to the economic problem in that it reduces our ability to produce goods and services over time.
- It can happen through direct depletion of resources by inefficient use (like over-fishing and deforestation),
- by polluting the environment (releasing harmful substances that alter the state of the land, air and water we require),
- by inefficiency in failing to protect resources from natural disasters.
what the most common environmental problems?
Air and Water Pollution
Definition of water pollution
the addition of material to water that has an adverse effect on its quality.
