Environmentalism & Resource use

  • Coal mountaintop removal: collective rights at risk?

    • factors & pieces: regulation, town survival, relocation of schools, economic equality and lobbying

  • Climate change: mitigating the emission of greenhouse gases; adapting to the already changing climate.

  • Paris Climate Accord: limit the global change in temperature to under 2 degrees; ideally 1.5.

  • Issues pertaining to the modern viability of liberalism:

    • environmental concerns

    • resource use & development

    • debt & poverty

    • racism

    • pandemics

    • terrorism

    • censorship → restriction on military info

  • Manipulation of information

    • Denial

    • Koch Industries

    • Exxon

  • Ideal world: Science → media → public (will of people) → new laws

    • False studies become a climate denial haven → creates an echo chamber of think tanks

  • DDT and the Silent Spring: Rachel Carlson being the scientist that found out DDT was bad.

  • Tobacco: cancer & disease → doubt, delay and confuse to the point where the first tobacco law is passed in the 1990s.