What surprised you about the process of Environmental Policy? Do you think that the U.S. Senate should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol? Why or why not. Why do you think creating and implementing environmental policy is so difficult locally, nationally, and internationally? Should communities and local government do more on a local level to create environmental policy? What environmental issues would you like to see addressed by policy makers?
The Environmental Policy process is incredibly long and frustrating, as with anything in politics. I was surprised about the amount of resistance the general public has for it.
I think that the senate should have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. I think that seeing that all the other countries did it should of been enough for the Us to do it as well. I think that 7% is a reasonable number even though we are a large country. I can see why they did not ratify the protocol, but I think that as a country we need to take care of this Earth.
I think it is difficult to implement environmental policy because it is hard to implement anything in general. It also seems that people have a lot of resistance to green movements and things like global warming. I think it is because that anything that would inconvenience the general public they automatically have resistance to it. People like speed and connivence and any environmental policy limits that, but for a good cause.
I think that communities and local government need to 100% create environmental policy for it to really work. More can be done locally than can be done nationally and I think that kind of a "grassroots" politic in the sense that it is starting at the smallest level of government would be the best way to make a change. I think that more things could be done locally and they would be better adjusted for that community. Nationally things are too standard for it to work for everybody.
I think we need to come up with solutions for our farming and meet production systems. I think that they need to be held accountable for their amount of polution. But I also think that people should take it upon themselves to help the environment. I wish that the government did not have to be involved at all. Unfortunately, the world has become solely about profit and the environment always suffers to make a greater profit.
Having uniform policy across the nation is extremely hard, not only because of politicians, but the differences in regional environmental concerns as well. While politics is probably the most likely way to see significant change now, it would be great if, like you said, people in communities could make those drastic changes themselves just because they know it's the right thing. Issues could be solved so easily at the local level once treating things nationally wasn't a concern.
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