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Improve The Environment … Leave It To The States … And The People, Becky Norton Dunlop
Improve The Environment … Leave It To The States … And The People, Becky Norton Dunlop
Center for Applied Economics
My talk is divided into three main sections. I first want to describe five principles that guided my actions as Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1994 through 1998. Then, I will offer some updated principles for an “American Conservation Ethic.” Finally, I will discuss some of the current environmental issues we face and how some of these principles are being, or could be, applied.
Is Climate Change The 21st Century’S Most Urgent Environmental Problem?, Indur M. Goklany
Is Climate Change The 21st Century’S Most Urgent Environmental Problem?, Indur M. Goklany
Center for Applied Economics
Some have argued that the Kyoto Protocol and other schemes for immediately mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are justified because human-induced global warming is, in the words of the 42nd U.S. President, William J. Clinton, “the overriding environmental challenge” facing the globe today.1 Another argument, advanced by those who are more cautious and perhaps less prone to hyperbole, is that the impacts of global warming – on top of myriad other global public health and environmental threats – may prove to be the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.” They suggest that climate change will overwhelm human and natural …