Sentences with phrase «political environmental arguments»

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There are more fundamental political and environmental arguments as well.

Political ideologies and arguments aside, a new way of approaching solutions to pressing environmental issues is growing out of the fracking movement with the potential to remove rhetoric and cheap political stunts from the policy pPolitical ideologies and arguments aside, a new way of approaching solutions to pressing environmental issues is growing out of the fracking movement with the potential to remove rhetoric and cheap political stunts from the policy ppolitical stunts from the policy process...

On the contrary, our argument is that the environmental movement has totally failed to resonate with the public, as with the political establishment generally.

In 1981, my Harvard colleague, political scientist Steven Kelman surveyed Congressional staff members, and found that support and opposition to market - based environmental policy instruments was based largely on ideological grounds: Republicans, who supported the concept of economic - incentive approaches, offered as a reason the assertion that «the free market works,» or «less government intervention» is desirable, without any real awareness or understanding of the economic arguments for market - based programs.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

Do not make arguments about a subject you obviously do not know very much about, you can not look at an environmental problem with a political viewpoint, that is absolutely ridiculous.

But the environmental argument in fact posits a political claim prior to science.

-- CREDO calls State Dept's EIS on Keystone XL «coward's logic» in statement: «The State Department's environmental assessment is a vehicle for the White House to test the waters to see if the public will buy its false and cynical argument that the Canadian Tar Sands are going to get burned anyway, and so the government's chief climate scientist's assertion that Keystone XL will spell «game over» for the climate may be true but is essentially irrelevant,» said Becky Bond, political director at CREDO.

«I realize there are environmental reasons for wanting to burn less oil, and political reasons for railing against oil - rich despots, but I'm mystified by the argument that energy independence would benefit Americans economically or somehow strengthen the country.»