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7.5 Environmental ObligationsVersion 1.2 January 2019 (Previous Version)
This Chapter focuses on why we need to ensure we maintain our local and the global environment, how we can achieve this, and some of the impediments which prevent timely action. The science and history of changes to the global environment is presented in Part 2 (Science) and Part 3 (History). Here we focus on the possibly severe social impacts, a managerial outline of the options available (avoiding technical detail), the significant positive and negative trends currently happening, the structures required to manage the environment and the impediments we face. Maintenance of the environment is primarily the responsibility of all individuals and organizations. Obviously we all should refrain from dumping shit in our own back yard. Our responsibility towards other people, our children and grandchildren, according them roughly equal status, and the reality of the threat to their wellbeing, impel us to encourage others to keep their backyard clean and not pollute ours. The larger the organization the more we expect it to be aware of these issues, and the greater its impact the greater its responsibility to preserve our environment. As discussed in Chapter 7.4, area governments must also manage environmental preservation at a national level. The major nations have the resources to develop practical policies (which can be models for the smaller states). Area governments have (or should have) a monopoly on the use of coercion, and hence the right and duty to enact and enforce environmental regulations. But nation states are still inclined to selfish policies. “The American way of life is not up for negotiations” then USA President George H. W. Bush selfishly said in 1992 at a Rio de Janeiro conference. We need an agreed global response, so that national efforts can be coordinated, monitors and verified, probably through some agency of the United Nations. We plan to look at our environmental obligations under the following headings:
After going through these topics, our current conclusions, as stated in the overview, are as follows: The global environment must be protected to prevent a collapse of global society, by reducing birth rates and hence global population, reducing the environmental impact per person, especially the affluent, and providing an equitable, healthy and prosperous, but sustainable, lifestyle for all peoples of the world. more Statement 39 The following pages explain how we justify these conclusions.
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