Environmental issues uk?

Question

“Critically assess the extent to which social and economic (and hence political) factors rather than the needs of the environment dictate the form and nature of corporate environmental regulation. can you tell me what this question about??

Answer 1

It is about whether decisions made by Governments on behalf of the community to control pollution, or stop deforestation or overfishing are based on clear and unbiased assessment of the needs of the environment, or whether it is based on where the money and the social capital is.

For example, it was quite easy to do something about the erosion of the ozone layer by chemicals called CFCs, because there wasn't a multi-billion dollar, multinational industry based around fridges and other appliances that prodice those chemicals. So, something was done about it.

On the other hand, climate change is being driven by industries that are very powerful, very rich, and employ a lot of people, like coal mining and burning, oil production, car manufacturing and air travel. So, very little is being done about it.

In the UK, I couldn't say where the main tension between socio-economic and environmental protection is, (I'm from Australia). Here, where I live, it's coal mining and also old-growth forest logging -- both of which would be stopped if considered objectively from an environmental perspective, but both of which continue unabated in parts of this country because "social and economic (and hence political) factors rather than the needs of the environment dictate the form and nature of corporate environmental regulation."

I hope that helped!

Answer 2

its asking you to give examples of how social, economic and political factors influance corporate environmental regulation and not environmental factors.

Answer 3

it means businesses dont really give a sh*t about the environment all they care about is saving money and so they hassle the govt to make sure they dont pass laws which make business more expensive