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At the core of environmental issues are questions regarding our moral obligations to
people residing in other nations, members of future generations, and non-human life, all of which are deeply affected by choices and actions that are largely outside their influence or control (Kysar 2010b). In most countries, one must add domestic victims of environmental injustice – ... presently living but subordinated people who suffer disproportionately from the negative effects of economic activity. The fundamental and unavoidable moral questions raised by these relationships must be addressed before turning to objective decision-making mechanisms such as economic cost-benefit analysis or their related implementation devices such as carbon permits and taxes. Yet those mechanisms and devices often give the appearance of having somehow already addressed and resolved the underlying moral questions, leaving observers falsely reassured that all relevant aspects of environmental decisions can be properly analyzed within the decision-making framework. Vital moral aspects of environmental law and policy become obscured and the ability of ordinary people to appreciate and participate in the process of futuremaking becomes occluded. All the while, the planet burns.
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
What too few people acknowledge, however, is that the personal is political and that our particular positions in a matrix of intersecting social structures shape and affect our political analyses.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
three assumptions that underpin neoclassical economic theory:
1. **Rational thinking**: People make rational choices between options based on the value that they identify in each choice.
2. **Maximizing**: Consumers aim to maximize utility, while businesses aim to maximize profits.
3. **Information**: People act independently based on having all the relevant information related to a choice or action.
Neoclassical Economics: What It Is and Why It's Important
Will Kenton
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