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POPSofficial announcement of US gov't on climate change make sure there doesn't appear the word 'warming' in this article. It may seem that they're in reality denying global warming, but please consider how they'd committed in COPs of CITES, which means, they were addressing the issue totally with a view of science, not by being influenced from NGOs' pressure.
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POPSPostcard from NZ to Japan, saying "stop whaling!"
Hmm... this action is out of focus in these points; 1) Whaling is politically done. There are no private companies which capture whales but the government as a political actor. So talking directly this issue to the public doesn't have recognisable effect. It's like saying to people in America in this way about global warming; " Stop driving! America is a land of tradition. Driving is one of them, but please make it history ". It doesn't actually make sense, you see. 2) NGO don't have political power in Japan, if any. In Japanese politics, the preasure from any interest groups, even though it's working for the general sake of society like global warming, should be excluded. 3) No room for environmental issue to be discussed in the Diet. If you know well about Japanese politics, the discussed issues nowadays especially are social insurance, schooling, and social gaps. Of course environmental issue is argued, but it's at government department instead of the Diet.
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POPSDispute at Wikipedia; political conflict between Japan and Korea This case clearly tells us wiki needs a government due to these conditions: 1) direct democracy Wiki is indeed "of the people, by the people, and for the people". But Lincoln definitely didn't mean the direct democracy should be established. The type of democracy is different between wiki and national governments. And the characteristics of wiki leads these two issues; 2) unclosed discussion; anyone may join the discussion suddenly, and also observers can interfere it. This often breaks a consensus if exist, and results in the instability of the wiki regime. 3) non-authority; unlike the international regime, who've written a page can be hardly specified. Anonymousness prevents the people from having their own visible/specifiable characteristics and authority. Therefore, 4) Impossibility of diplomacy; there's no room of negotiation. Direct democracy is indeed good at making each thoughts clear, but it isn't suitable to make a decision of the large community like wik
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POPS'Aquaculture' copes with sustainability of seafood It's crucial theme to tackle with sustainability of seafood with a view of global governance of the commons, like regulation. This issue isn't yet of great concern, but along with increase of seafood consumption of US and of China this will cause international conflicts.
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POPSImposing morality and ethics is 'imperialism': whaling conference Some of you think the same thing can go to the climate change regime, but actually it isn't. There are two points at least different from climate change regime; 1) the epistemic community doesn't work enough to give sufficient information which have both governments and NGOs like greenpeace and IFAW (Preservationists) and WWF (Conservationists) know about facts. Without sharing scientific knowledge, the issue cannot be addressed with effectiveness. 2) there are only a few countries like Japan, Norway, UK, US and so on that have connexions in terms of interests by either using the resource or not, and many of the states (ones doesn't have coastline) doesn't have the connexions with them. This means that a few actors play a part in either leading the regime or preventing it. The others doesn't make decision spontaneously. Mainly there decision is influenced from the public opinion or the political power outside of the country.
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POPSWhaling Regime is Breaking Down IWC aims to establish the sustainable use of whales. Ignoring both this point and also statistics (general knowledge) and planning to boycott the discussion, where both leading states and veto states can make consensus, the whaling regime is breaking down.
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POPSGlobal Culture War Not real familiar with 'think-tanks' but when I saw the A.E.I. trashed with such detailed effort,and from where, I figured there must be some solid, thought provoking ideas there.
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POPSConference on the Sustainable Use of Tuna Though it's a step for sustainable use of sea resources, this isn't yet enough since, unlike Kyoto Protocol for example, the regime doesn't include any legal regulations. So we'll see the "tragedy of commons" here. This topic will be, however, suitable for case-study of global governance of fisheries.
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