This topic contains a solution. Click here to go to the answer

Author Question: How do the conservative, liberal, and radical left points of view define environmental problems? ... (Read 126 times)

809779

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 579
How do the conservative, liberal, and radical left points of view define environmental problems? Which view is most optimistic?
 
  Which is the most pessimistic? How does each point of view define solutions to many of the environmental problems discussed in the chapter?
 
  What is an Ideal response?

Question 2

Define environmental racism. Give examples of this pattern. Do you think this issue involves race or class or both?
 
  What is an Ideal response?



Related Topics

Need homework help now?

Ask unlimited questions for free

Ask a Question
Marked as best answer by a Subject Expert

Liamb2179

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 365
Answer to Question 1

 Radical-Left View: The natural environment is in serious danger due to capitalism's ever-increasing appetite for growth and profits. Under the current economic and political system, the natural environment is likely to experience eventual collapse.
 Liberal View: The natural environment is in danger. Both increasing pollution and the rapid use of natural resources including freshwater threaten people now and present societal patterns are not sustainable.
 Conservative View: There are challenges but problems can be solved. Although humanity has created pollution and consumed natural resources, it has shown itself capable of devising new, clean technologies as well as alternative forms of energy.

Answer to Question 2

 Environmental racism theory states that the poorand especially minoritiessuffer most from environmental hazards.
 Historically, factories that create pollution have been located in or near neighborhoods of the poor and people of color. People with low incomes often find that the only housing they can afford stands in the very shadow of the plants and mills where they work.
 Through the years, the most serious environmental hazards have been found around Newark, N.J., rather than in upscale Bergen County; on Chicago's South Side rather than in wealthy Lake Forest; and on or near Native American reservations in the West rather than in the affluent suburbs of Denver or Phoenix.




809779

  • Member
  • Posts: 579
Reply 2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Wow, this really help


covalentbond

  • Member
  • Posts: 336
Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

Did you know?

Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.

Did you know?

In Eastern Europe and Russia, interferon is administered intranasally in varied doses for the common cold and influenza. It is claimed that this treatment can lower the risk of infection by as much as 60–70%.

Did you know?

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, lung disease is the third leading killer in the United States, responsible for one in seven deaths. It is the leading cause of death among infants under the age of one year.

Did you know?

There are over 65,000 known species of protozoa. About 10,000 species are parasitic.

Did you know?

When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.

For a complete list of videos, visit our video library