Project Milestone 2
Subject
Guiding Questions
Response
Consider all possible solutions or alternatives.
- Give three possible solutions to the environmental issue you are investigating.
- Why would some people oppose the solutions you have chosen?
- Three solutions are: passing the law to limit pollution, proposing a clean up movement, or finding an alternate place for waste disposal.
- Passing a law takes a lot more work than a clean-up. Some people would also oppose the alternate waste-disposal idea because it’s causing a loss for the places using the Everglades as a place to dispose waste.
- What positive or negative externalities does this issue present at each sector of the economy? Refer to your circular-flow diagram.
- What incentives do individuals, businesses, and government have to act on each possible solution?
- What are the externalities, both positive and negative that could result from each possible solution?
- Local Government- Lack of free riders due to pollution. State Government- It is a “common” public area prone to pollution. National Government-The Everglades is a free resource.
- Individuals and the government have the incentive of a cleaner area and a better economy. Local business may also benefit unless they need to find another place to dispose of waste.
- If we pass a law, we would have the problem of a common area but we would gain free riders and free resources (to use in a healthy way, like swimming, fishing, water sports). If we did a clean up act, we would have free resources to use as a landfill, free riders, and still the problem of it being a public area. If we found another place for companies to dispose of waste we would have a lack of free resources and free riders.