Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Judith Espinosa and Peggy Duxbury, President's Council on
Judith Espinosa and Peggy Duxbury, President's Council on
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Coordinator, Principles, Goals, and Definitions Task Force;† President's Council on Sustainable Development REVIEW OF PROPOSED NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOALS Judith Espinosa: Some of the comments that you all have made just now, plus the questions that you had of EPA, are probably some of the comments that you will want to have of the President's Council on Sustainable Development and our goals. Some of them track.
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We also had a Natural Resources task force looking at various issues. Ecosystem task forces looked at industrial processes and product stewardship and the like.
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I also heard that Congress doesn't know right now what the exact procedures will be. That kind of concerns me, because I don't think Congress should be dealing with what the exact procedures for risk assessment should be -- I believe that it should be groups of scientists and groups of individuals who work in the environment as well as social scientists looking at risk assessment issues.
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So those of you that have some strong opinions of climate change may want to make some comments on that. Sustainable agriculture -- again, as I mentioned, we talked a lot about safe food sources.
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We had a religious roundtable where we brought in religious leaders from all over the country, who actually have been engaged in sustainable development concerns for far longer than the Council has existed. They gave us some very good points regarding the process of population stabilization -- the religious issues as related to environmental stability and environmental protection.
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What are the variables that need to go into looking at risk assessments -- cultural, religious, social, biodiversity values that are not found in a hard science context? But how can we make a risk assessment work including those variables.
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And I think that there they would answer the questions of what should be the environmental goals by saying they must be developed looking through the lens of sustainable developments. And as David Garman discussed this morning when he talked about his core concepts, environmental goals, environmental policies, must be looked at with an eye more carefully to the economic and social costs and economic and social values that are involved.
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So with that in mind, one of the things that I was going to go into was the process of how did we get to these ten goals? But I promised Deborah Stine that I wouldn't go through a blow-by-blow process discussion of how we went from basically 300 goals, which is where we were in February, to the 10 goals that you're looking right now, plus the three sectoral goals.
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Both at the Council level and also in all of our public hearings, this duality between these two words created more emotional discussions and heated debates than perhaps any other issue that the Council faced. And we did, in our vision statement, we used the word growth; in our goals, we used the word prosperity.
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And I think that our two co-chairs on the population task force, Tim Worth and Diane Dilinridgely, spent a number of days in roundtables talking about demographic trends and issues, and we try to capture that a little bit in our indicators. The ninth goal is international responsibility: requiring the United States to
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But these were three that we had task forces that had done lot of work on, and it seemed to make some sense to try to deal with them. Certainly on energy and transportation, it did help us at least start addressing some issues like climate change through some of our behavior.
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