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Environmental Organizations and Reasoned Discourse
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This book explores the meaning and role of "fair and reasoned discourse" in thecontext of our institutions for environmental decision processes. The bookreviews the roles of our "environmental advocacy organizations"-such as TheSierra Club, The Audubon Society, the Environmental Defense Fund-in providingand ensuring that our discourse and decisions are fair and reasoned according tothe criteria of being (i) inclusive of input from all affected, (ii) informed of relevantscientific and socio-economic information, (iii) uncorrupted by direct conflicts ofinterest, and (iv) logical according robust review by uncorrupted judges. Theseorganizations are described and examined as expressions of "collective imperfectduty, " i.e. the coordinated duties with environmental direction. The current stateof our discourse is examined in light of this fairness criteria, particularly inconsideration of the cross-border problems that threaten tragedies of the globalcommons.
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