Chapter 25 IDs: Politics, Environment, and Sustainability

Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the term.

Core Case Study: Rescuing a River

Question 1: Marion Stoddart put an unbelievable amount of time and energy into cleaning up the Nashua River. Would you ever do this for any environmental cause, like cleaning up the Los Angeles River? Explain.

25.1 Environmental Policy

a) Environmental Policy Life Cycle

b) Profit vs nonprofit

Question 2: Greenpeace, a non-profit organization, became notorious for extremist, non-violent environmental behavior. Their members would chain themselves to trees in forests or attach themselves to the anchors of commercial fishing boats. Do you support the use of nonviolent and nondestructive civil disobedience tactics by environmental groups and individuals?

25.2 Environmental Policy in the USA

c) Lobbying

d) BLM

25.3 Environmental Law and Laws

e) Administrative Law and Common Law

f) SLAPPs

Question 3: In perhaps the most well known SLAPP, Oprah Winfrey was sued in 1996 by Texas cattle ranchers after a show called “Dangerous Food,” in which she interviewed experts on mad cow disease, and said she would not eat another hamburger. Several cattlemen complained to the Oprah Winfrey Show that their business was being damaged. The cattleman moved forward with a lawsuit against Winfrey, alleging more than $12 million in damages for violations of the Texas False Disparagement of Perishable Food Products Act, and the torts of business disparagement, defamation, negligence, and negligence per se. Texas does not have an anti-SLAPP law, so Winfrey fought the SLAPP in trial for six weeks before a jury found in her favor. Do you think you or I could have fought off the NCBA? What could be done to protect us from SLAPP’s?

25.4 Environmental Groups and Their Opponents

g) Grassroots

h) Anti-environmental movement

25.5 Global Environmental Policy

i) Environmental vs Military vs Economic security

j) UNEP

Question 4: Is environmental security just as important as economic and military security?Justify your position with two supporting statements.