GREEN POLITICS: Blog Assignment for Environmental Policy

I do not think that the U.S. should have signed the Kyoto Protocol because it had fundamental flaws in its design. The first being that it did not act fairly towards both developed and undeveloped countries. One main problem that I found with it was that undeveloped countries could sell their unused emissions to other countries that were more developed and over their limits. Countries such as Russia who emits a large volume of emissions would be under it's limit and could sell to thier countries. This was the case because Russia has so much land mass.

I believe that getting environmental policies signed at all levels is hard because everyone wants to protect whats in their groups best interest. This however is hard to do because not everyone has the same ideas and many times the ideas are very different from each other and only compounds with the larger the scale. I think that communities should try and fix this problem by looking at the bigger picture and what is best for everyone as a whole. I would like to see more policies supporting sustainable communities and issues such as reducing reliance on fossil fuels, supporting local farmers and merchants, encouraging green practices and building, consideration of native wildlife, and adoption of mass transportation and cleaner methods of commuting.

Ecofeminism

Before viewing the readings on ecofeminism I had a sort of a negative view towards it. I had kind of a negative attitude towards it. I had not really ever read a lot on it but what I heard and thought the idea about it was all about hating men. After reading on the subject I found the idea to be out there a bit. I found ecofenminism to focus to much on a mystical connection between women and nature and not enough on the actual conditions of women. I found form the readings that ecofeminism is the social movement that regards the oppression of women and nature as interconnected. I also saw that it aimed to examine the interconnections between sexism, the domination of nature (including animals), and also racism and social inequalities. I also gathered that it hoped to fight the oppressions of gender, race, class and nature. I did not really have any strong feelings on the subject. I think that if you look you can see the forms of dominance all around you. I think that a problem that sometimes occurs is that people trying to stop the domination of one group by another tends to shift to far and then begins to oppress the group that was dominating in the beginning. I think that this is something that people should be careful to avoid.