AGENDA
- Green corps
- Recap: Wenz
- Kinship disruption view
- Next week: water issues (Monday), env orgs priorites (Wednesday), midterm (Friday)
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Wenz recap
PCBB = Principle of commensurate benefits and burdens
Wenz: PCBB is violated in situation below
Wenz's proposal --LULU point system that brings benefits and burdens into alignment
Your objections, Wenz's replies
- Main objection of anti-PCBB groups
- Highland park: high benefits of consumption, high financial burden
- South Dallas: low environmental quality, low financial burden
- So no actual violation of PCBB
- Wenz': "Market forces" section of article
- citizenship comes with jury duty, military service; can't buy your way out of it
- consumption comes with waste, industry; can't buy your way out of associated burdens
- this only applies to "basic and vital goods and services" (p. 450)
- there are many valid exceptions to PCBB-- e.g. unemployment compensation -- he says the exceptions prove the rule
What money can't buy, reading recommendations
- Michael Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
- Debra Satz, Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets
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Other applications of PCBB to environmental issues
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| We get the benefit of our high consumption but some of the associated burdens will fall on future people (violates PCBB) |
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| Garbage exports: we get the benefit of our high consumption Some of the burden falls on low consumers (violates PCBB) |
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Third account of environmental injustice
Kyle Whyte: kinship disruption
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| Whyte p. 272 |
Examples of kinship disruption
- relationship to buffalo -- disrupted by slaughter -- Ken Burns "The American Buffalo" clip -- solution: restoration of herds on reservations -- special permission to hunt
- relationship to anadromous fish (e.g. salmon) -- disrupted by damming of river and logging -- solution: undamming (Monday)
More examples
- relationship to wolves -- disrupted by recreational hunting and extermination
- relationship to wild rice -- disrupted by commercial rice farming
- relationship to medicinal plants -- disrupted by pollution
- relationship to rivers, waterways -- disrupted by mining
- relationship to maples -- disrupted by dam that causes flooding
- relationship to lake, fish -- disrupted by rule against using motor boats in Boundary Waters Canoe Area
- relationship to land, water -- disrupted by oil pipelines
Comparison to other types of environmental injustice
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| Whyte p. 272 |