New Series: The Green Deal

By Wesley Joseph • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: General

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I am most excited to present the debut of “The Green Deal,” EnviroHumanImpact’s latest series! This series of articles will detail a modern, commonsense approach to tackling some of the main environmental problems faced in the United States.

Why the U.S.? We know many of our readers are from other countries, but we are based in the States and can better talk about the problems here and potential solutions. The U.S. is the world’s number one polluter, also, so let’s start with the biggest problem here. No, we won’t pretend these are the only answers to these vast problems, but rather a set of proposals to spark interest and thought on these problems that many may accept as facts of life. They do not have to be!

Why “The Green Deal”? Think about the problems faced when “The New Deal” was introduced and the solutions presented. The social safety nets offered by The New Deal are the type of “big thinking” solutions necessary to bring about positive changes to the environment. In short, we need an environmental safety net and safety infrastructure to improve and maintain a high-quality environment that is sustainable and healthy for all of its in habitants.

We’ll discuss solutions to the big and small problems that add up in our current state of affairs to an unsustainable common lifestyle shared by the majority of our population.

Right now the U.S., as the world’s largest polluter, lacks a strong serious leadership on matters related to the environment. Large sweeping immediate measures coupled with longterm, forward-thinking projects to finally move our polluting economy into a cleaner, greener 21st Century is what is needed (badly!).

I would summarize the content of the series here, but this is going to be a long, on-going series of articles and how much time have you right now? I am talking about big ideas here that would change the way commerce and daily life are lived (for the better). All proposals — free ideas for anyone who wants to implement them — that might help it all come together. Think about transportation, raw materials, commodity controls, and energy infrastructure being the backbone of most posts for this series.

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Wesley Joseph is the primary editor for EHI. He comes from a strong political science background and is interested in the effect humans' actions have on the environment, how in turn the environment affects humans, and how environmental policy at large and personal actions can both change into positive envirohuman impacts.
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