The documentary “Mine Your Own Business” asserts that environmentalists’ opposition to the Rosia Montana mining project is unsympathetic to the needs of the locals, prevents economic progression, and locks the locals into lives of eternal poverty. The film claims that the majority of the village’s population support the mine and the investment in their hometown. In interviews with the locals, many state that they are excited about the possible job opportunities and prospective income that the mine will present them. The film further presents foreign environmentalists as aliens who are too far removed from the situation to truly understand the needs of the locals. Furthermore, to respond to the claim that the mining operation would destroy Rosia Montana’s quaint appeal, the director points out that one of the Romanian government’s stipulations was that the mining company, Gabriel Resources, would be required to clean up the existing pollution and to maintain a fund of $30 million to be used for further clean-up of the area after the mining company discontinues its operations. Furtherm...
Martin, John. “The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A mine disaster No One Stopped.” Public Administration: Concepts and Cases. Stillman, Richard Joseph. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2010. 31-44.
The Forja auto plant lies dormant after Menem’s crucial choices. The employees take action and form a new movement of workers who are occupying their own bankrupt businesses, which create jobs for the recently unemployed. Freddy Espinoza the president of La Forja joined with co-workers in hopes of bringing their factory back to life without a boss making all the decisions. The worker’s plan was to have a democratic organization where everyone votes on all decisions, not just one person making the choices. Their biggest inspiration on the movement was the Zanon Ceramics factory. The factory has been worker controlled for just over two years at this time, and succeeded in everything they had strived for. Just like Zanon becoming a successful cooperative business, some Canadian cooperative businesses have become very successful and well known. Agropur, a dairy company providing their products to name-bran yogurts and ice cream companies, is a very successful cooperative business. Even though Canada is mostly a neoliberalism country, abiding by the rules of having...
In the beginng of try to answer the ethical question of was mountaintop removal mining right or wrong for West Virginia, I decided to look at the environmental hazards first, exploring all the possible...
This article addresses the how the government has relocated a large group of people and termed them ‘Ecological Migrants’. Throughout the article it portrays the discontent of the people through the pictures, stories and interview answers. Unlike the first article this article spends more time and article space on accounts of the displeased people, giving them a media platform to discuss their discontent. For example, one interviewee says “the work is so exhausting, and I’m dead tired. I never worked like this before… we lived our days on our own schedule” (Wong). Another interview commented that during the relocation, “we all cried, they cried, I cried. We were a family and now we’re separated” (Wong). This article also contrasts the first article in that is paints a picture of the current conditions for the audience. More so it goes greater in depth about the people’s daily lives, causing the audience to feel connected to their struggles. The purpose of this article is to allow the reader to feel more connected to the people and the struggles in order to bring awareness to the general public. It too is a visual article that uses pictures to get its point
The word “environment” was given then a contrasting connotation. Unlike the traditional environmental movement, which was condemned for ignoring the experience of black people and the lower class, the environment was restructured as a setting where people live. Supporters started to focus comprehensively on making the topic evenhanded. Advocates classified this equality into three expansive types: technical, geographic, and societal equities. Technical impartiality is apprehensive on unbiased manner or justice on the employment of central regulations, assessment criterion, and enforcement of environmental rules. Geographic fair play is concentrated on finding groups of people and their propinquity to green peril, ...
Some people within Rosia Montana wanted to have Gabriel Resources buy out their land. Along with these inhabitants of Rosia Montana, who hoped to reap the economic benefits of mining in the region, various Romanian government officials, the Canadian government and some of the Romanian public hoped to see the mine project go forward.
I thought “Blockadia” to be one of the most well-written pieces we looked at in class, and certainly one of the most topical. Discussing the ecological and environmental crises of several different countries, each with their own distinct approach to their relationship with nature, and drawing them all together by identifying the common goal of protests in these respective countries is an overarching challenge that the author, Naomi Klein, tackled tactfully with deep understanding, including in her writing the valuable persuasive arguments of the many experiences of those living directly affected by the environmental crises.
This paper intends to examine the Canadian political economy in terms of its past and present developments that have significant implications on the environment and policy-making from the perspective of environmental economics. The parallels that could be drawn in order to examine the link between the Canadian political economy, the environment, and policy-making intersect upon the historical processes within natural resources extraction based, market-oriented economy. In the conclusion, this paper invokes the time for change in terms of gradual transitioning and/ or transforming to alternative economy that recognizes sustainability, acknowledges the finiteness and exhaustion of country’s natural recourses, and celebrates the shift towards
In the documentary, “The Harvest,” the migrant works are exposed to subjective meanings by the way they view their work environment in the farming fields of agriculture. Most of the migrant works shown in the film are depicted as interpreting their social status as poverty and the inability to escape the harsh and demanding work environments they find themselves in. This can be best scene in the video where the young migrant female child is picking apples hoping that maybe her relocation to family in Florida might better her chances of a better education. Many view their situation as helpless as the one father finds himself with the daily struggles of vehicular upkeep and the challenges of always having to move from field to field for work.
Fiona Govan, A. L. (2010, august 26). the telegraph. Retrieved april 13, 2011, from telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/7966590/Families-of-trapped-Chilean-miners-to-sue-mining-firm.htm
The book Encounters with the Archdruid presents a nonfictional narrative that is divide into three distinct section, with every section exploring the author’s confrontations with the ideological conflicts. The book narrates the struggle faced by Brower against the miners, the United States Bureau of Reclamation and various developers. The author employs facts and actual events to report the outcome of the events. Consequently, the book is an imperative resource in the exploration of ideological conflict in the contemporary world.
Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are guilty of environmental racism. The eco-systems of many poor communities are under a strain due to increased globalization of the world’s economy (Christman and Taylor, 2001). Industries such as oil, timber, and minerals are being extracted for export
The modern world is fuelled by oil (Youngquest, 1998). This reality has brought tremendous changes and developments that is continuously transforming the modern period, changing its lifestyles and economies in the last 200 years. However, these changes do not only paved for modernization and development, but it has also paved for the environmental crisis that the world is now facing (Bodley, 2008). Environmental crisis refers to the degradation of the environmental quality due to human intervention in natural processes. In other words, as human beings consume and deplete the resources of the world, our industrial by-products are piling up (Bodley, 2008). As such, it is important to stress the fact that environmental crisis is not only about environmental problems, but it is about the intertwined concerns regarding politics, economics, society and ideologies (Bodley 2008, p. 43).
Chasek, P. S., Downie, D. L., & Brown, J. W. (2014). The Development of Environmental Regimes: Chemicals, Wastes, and Climate Change. In P. S. Chasek, D. L. Downie, & J. W. Brown, Global Environmental Politics (6th ed., pp. 101-173). Boulder: Westview Press.
Being an entrepreneur, is advanced citizenship, you have to want it real bad. Entrepreneur is not entitlement. Being an entrepreneur is a life commitment. Like in the movie Wall Street, a famous line was "You can 't be a little bit pregnant." The fact is you can 't be an on again, off again entrepreneur.