thursday, march 3, 1977
daily nebraskan
zavironmemer
By Maxine Kubicek
Most Americans have no basic understanding of the
environment and no idea of what ecology really means,
according to an environmental law expert.
Roger Hansen, associate professor at the College of
Forestry and Natural Resources at Colorado State Univer
sity, spoke Wednesday at the UNL Law College about
Environmental Policy -Disappointment and Opportunity.
Hansen spoke in connection with Law Day activities
sponsored by the Student Bar Association.
The once-popular environmental ethic has become a
kind of cultural artifact which was replaced by the energy
crisis, he said. He added that ecology is sometimes
thought of as the product of "wilderness nuts and bird
watchers." FABagenda
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hie has b
ecome cultural
However, he noted that a recent Harris poll indicated
Americans still give concern for the environment a high
priority rating.
Simultaneous crises
He said the environment is facing a number .of
simultaneous crises such as the Arab oil embargo and the
natural gas shortage. He said a major change in the
American lifestyle is needed to combat these crises.
'This doesn't mean adding five inches of insulation to
your home,' turning down" the thermostat and being
'comfortably miserable.' . ' . v
"I'd like to see cars taxed on a graduated scale accord
ing to weight, gas mileage and emissions, with speed limits
based on these factors," he saidi
Hansen's suggestion of a speed limit of "80 miles per
hour for, Vplkswagons and 35 mph for Buick station
wagons" brought applause from the audience.
He said the auto industry is fighting emissions
standards "tooth and; nail" while, in the meantime,
Americans are flocking back to the large cars. .
;.Trip. to the dump .'
A major problem of society is that Americans rely too
much upon technology and consumption, he said. In a
natural ecosystem the rates of Consumption and renewal
form a cycle, he said, but in American society "it's a one
way trip to the dump." '-
Existing laws regulating environmental protection treat
environmental problems individually, "as if they existed
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in a vacuum," he said. Unrealistic deadlines, lack of
technically qualified personnel and extensions of dead
lines compound the difficulties of regulation, he added.
Hansen cited goals in the areas of clean water and land
use as perhaps the most difficult to attain. A land use act
patterned after the air, water and solid waste act
implemented by the states is badly needed, he said.
"I'm not very optimistic because there are too many
real estate developers in the state legislatures and city
councils," he said. .
"Still, the opportunities of the future really are greater
than the disappointments of the past,"
Nobletospeal
Massachusetts state, legislator Elaine Noble, the first
admitted lesbian to hold public office, will speak in
the Nebraska Union Ballroom tonight at 7:30.
Noble's chief concerns j .a state legislator have been
the rights of minorities and political reform. '
Noble, Harvard-educated, has made it clear that she did
not run as a gay candidate, but as a qualified political
candidate who did not hide her lesbianism.
Noble will participate in an informal discussion on
women in politics from 9:30 to 11 ajn. today in the
Union. Room number will be posted.
Her speech,, open to the public, is sponsored by the
Nebraska Union Program Council Talks and Topics Com
mittee, the . University Gay Action " Group and the
Women's Resource Center.
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