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In political theory, deliberative democracy has been discussed as a political model more compatible with environmental goals. Deliberative democracy is a system in which informed political equals weigh values, information, and expertise, and debate priorities to make decisions, as opposed to a democracy based on interest aggregation. [30]
Books about or featuring the environment as a prominent theme have proliferated especially since the middle of the twentieth century. The rise of environmental science , which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement , which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's ...
Transportation is the largest contributor to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, making it a target for Democrats seeking to lower those emissions ...
The anthropocentric view has been seen as the conservationist approach to the environment with nature viewed, at least in part, as a resource to be used by man. In contrast to the conservationist approach the ecocentric view, associated with John Muir, Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth referred to as the preservationist movement. This ...
One of the key early successes of the Green Liberal Democrats, and its new Chair, Keith Melton, was to ensure that the preamble to the Liberal Democrat constitution had a key reference to Green issues at the heart of the party with the following sentence appearing immediately after the first paragraph defining Liberal Philosophy - "We believe ...
The European Environment Agency (EEA) reports that exposure to environmental harms such as pollution is correlated with poverty, [122] and that poorer countries suffer from environmental harms while higher income countries produce the majority of the pollution. Western Europe has more extensive evidence of environmental inequality.
Atlas of Our Changing Environment: Climate change: United Nations Environment Programme: 2005– The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat: Climate change: Eric Roston: 2008: ISBN 978-0-80271751-1: The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era: Global warming: Jeremy Leggett: 1999: This ...
Democrats seemingly responded to the joke by publishing their own book titled "Reasons To Vote For Republicans: A Captivating Interpretation," basically copying what the conservative managing ...