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politicization of environmental issues - Coggle Diagram
politicization of environmental issues
Politicizing Science
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/64/3/171/225005
hyper-partisan world
back in 2014
increasingly more so today
discusses
federal budget sequestrations and partial government shutdowns affect scientists
Politicizing science no more
https://www.nature.com/articles/ni0308-217
"US Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who testified before Congress that the Bush administration had repeatedly 'watered down' or suppressed public health reports for political gain"
government corruption affecting public policy
general agreement
greed leading to policies that do not represent will of the people
far less environmental regulations
Bush claimed there were at least 60 stem cell lines available for federally funded research, when only 15 exist
trump claiming climate change a "chinese hoax" etc.
by presidents and other high party members taking a "stance" on scientific facts, leads to their followers to agree with them & politicizes something which should be entirely based on fact
Politicization of Ecological Issues: From Environmental Forms to Environmental Motives
involvement of politics has lead to ecological views as being interpreted with wariness by the people
education
"building legitimacy from people’s perceptions of singular forms and patterns in their environment"
Fighting Special Interest Lobbyist Power Over Public Policy
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2017/09/27/439675/fighting-special-interest-lobbyist-power-public-policy/
Business and industry far outstrip any other source of lobbying at a ratio of 34 to 1
corporate america distorting democracy in their favor
leads to policies which disregard or harm the environment
solutions:
ban lobbyist fundraising
Ban members of Congress from accepting contributions from interests in front of their committees.
Members of Congress get huge fundraising —up to 50% of money that they raise—from industries and groups that are under the jurisdiction of their committees
science relies on gov heavily for funding
people uneducated on the topic make decisions