The pressure to loosen clean air standards is based in allegations that the standards affect industry development and economy because the adjustments require further modernization and some industry even need to change their whole machinery or line production to be able to meet the legal requirements, as for the car industry, slowing down production or increasing costs.
In short-term that is very likely to be true, the industry will have to do some investment, but the price will be lower than the long-term cost of keeping up polluting the air.
The clean air standards should not be loosen because loosen the standards will benefits only specific groups and temporary, later and in other domains the loosen of the standards will affects human and other animals quality of life and environment. The economic impact will be seen later on healthy sector, food sector as agriculture and livestock, in nature disaster and in the lack of natural resources due to dramatic landscape changes.
We should not think about just economic impact of now when taking this decisions but we should consider systematic risks and consequences of supporting the loosen of clean air standards.
We must keep in mind that some process in nature are irreversible and when one action as the pollution of air is impacting towards things we will not be able to revert anymore the cost will be much higher in future than is now to adapt to the clean standards.
Answer
False
Explanation
Environmental journalists people who collects, writes,and distributes news about the environment. They advocate for changes that improve the quality of the planet. They educate people on the state of environment and use the power of their channels to bring the changes so that they can improve the quality of the environment and the natural resources. They are are not prohibited from direct participation in environmental advocacy movements.
Answer: Sociological imagination
Explanation:According to Wright Mills this process encourages one to think out of the box , think of something different or away from your normal routine in order to have a fresh perspective.He challenges one to look at what is the link between their experience and the society in which they live.
This allows a person to look at their action and how those actions impact the surrounding society .
Instead of putting criminals in prison the new mayor gave them something positive to do in the society , have activities to do which takes away their focus on committing criminal activities.