Assignment

Saving the Glaciers In your text on pages 492 & 493 there is a short case for analysis titled "Saving the Glaciers", please read the essay and then generally answer the questions it poses, focusing primarily on how your framework would apply to the glacier issue.

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The glaciers have been disappearing from Glacier Natuinal Park in Montana and adjoining Waterton National Part in Canada. In 1850, Glacier is said to have had 150 glaciers; in 2006 there were 27. in response to this trend, various organizations petitioned for the part to be designated endangered by being place on the danger list of the world Heritage committee. As one report says, Endangered status would require the World Heritage committee to find ways to mitigate how climate change affects the park, [the law professor who wrote the petition] said Better fuel efficiency for automobiles and stronger energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances are among the ways to reduce greenhouse pollution that contributes to warming, the petition [said].

But some denounce the petition as unnecessary and unsupported by scientific data, while one group of scientists estimated that if climate trends continue, Glacier park's glaciers will disappear completely by 2030.

Justify your answers: suppose the glaciers' melting would have no appreciable effect on the environment that they would no longer exist.

Would conservationists still be justified in trying to save the glaciers? if so, how could they justify their efforts? if not, why not? suppose the glaciers could be save only if the government spends 10 billion on pollution controls money that would have to be taken away from social programs. would this be taken be worth? or why not?