Brooke+Lockwood+RP+Post+4

1. How has the modern environmental movement changed in the lat 50 years and how has this altered its efficacy? 2. Environmental Advocacy Then and Now 3. Living on Earth (features voices of Carl Pope, Steve Curwood and Fred Krupp) 4.[] 5. Google search of "environmental activism then and now" 6. S- the recent changes in enaction of environmental policy, polarization of political parties, progress O- the 1000th episode of "Living on Earth," increasing focus on the need for effective environmental policy A- environmentalists, Democrats/Republicans P- to explain the lack of effective environmental policy, to point out progress, a summary of post-Kyoto Protocol environmental action by the U.S. government S- Krupp, Kurwood, Pope, Sierra Club, Dems/Reps Tone- informal but informed 7. This transcript of a radio interview of environmentalists Pope and Kurwood in which they discuss environmentalism post-Kyoto Protocol, detailing the failure of U.S. environmentalism after a 1994 political shift towards increasing polarization. 8. Progress has been made since the Kyoto Protocol, but political squabbles have largely hindered the proper address of the climate change issue 9. While I find the point about the failure of environmental policy due to political polarization, I am less optimistic about the current progress being made by corporations to reduce energy consumption 10. "Beginning in 1994, there was a part of the American political spectrum, the reactionary right, that decided to challenge the whole concept that we ought to have an environmental safety net, that we shared this planet with other species, and other generations and other countries, and that we had to take care of it. And there was really a systematic assault, from 1993 until Katrina. And I think the biggest success of the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations during the last 20 years has been that we held on during that assault and I hope we’re coming out on the other side of it and I think our biggest accomplishment was getting through it intact."
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1. " 2. //Agency, Democracy and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective// 3. Robert J. Brulle 4.[|http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=uTIMqZANGF4C&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=environmental+movement&ots=z5p0SToL1u&sig=x9nDyqzRc4QNpsHVqUEEQrilocY#v=onepage&q=environmental%20movement&f=false] 5. Google scholar search of "environmental movement" 6. S- global warming, development of the environmental movement after the Civil War, governmental organizations O- widespread environmental catastrophe A- those interested in the environment and environmental law/policy, lawmakers P-to describe the need for widespread social change beyond the scatterbrained conglomeration of various organizations S- Robert J. Brulle, a variety of scientists and lawmakers Tone- highly academic 7. This book describes the development of the environmental movement from its inception until the Reagan era, as well as the various environmental troubles that are facing the planet along with the policy that has been instituted to combat these troubles. 8. Widespread social change must occur in order to combat the issues regarding climate change, beyond the current acts of law and grassroots movements 9. I am very much convinced that a widespread social movement is necessary 10. (not possible)
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