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Is a Broad Coalition Essential?

Date Apr 12, 2012
Time 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  
Location 100 Noyes
Sponsor Office of Sustainability
Views 1960

Environmental policy is, at its core, an effort to change human behaviors that involve misuses of nature, particularly the behaviors of businesses. How can we bring about such change?  What methods have been tried in the past, and with what success? To the extent that new laws and government programs are needed, what will it take to bring them about given financial constraints on government, the power of the backlash movement, and the rising control of media by cultural forces hostile to progressive government and environmental protection?