This article discusses the adoption of labor concerns by the environmental movement in an attempt to win over unionized workers in the fossil fuel industry to support a “just transition.”
California is reconsidering it s “cap and trade” approach to energy transition/decarbonization. “Launched in 2013, California’s cap and trade program sets an overall cap on greenhouse gas emissions each year but offers flexibility in how companies achieve it by allowing them to buy and sell pollution credits in auctions. … California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office said that its possible this could become a trend: Future auctions might continue to flatline because of the recession and too many pollution credits floating around the market. … The Legislative Analyst’s Office warns too many credits might interfere with reaching California’s 2030 climate goals. … A think-tank analysis published in January suggested altering the minimum price at which cap-and-trade credits are sold, recommending that the price rise and fall in response to rising and falling emissions. … As California’s leadership haggled over the budget, Wieckowski’s proposal was scrapped. Blumenfeld said in his letter that California needs more time to understand the long-term consequences of the pandemic.”
The viewpoints that are not included in this film were the people who may have been affected by the radiation either in Toyoko or the rest of Japan.
Perspectives of public health officials, goverment workers (excluding the president), and international aid organizations such as doctors with out borders and the united nations (both of which are depicted), are not included in the film. More scholarly perspectives are also not included.
The film primarily included the viewpoints of a family separated due to the Ebola outbreak, from both the affected Monrovia and the safety of the United States. The views of aid workers, advocates, patients, and doctors, government officials or health experts were not included.
This film does not show the perspective of the government in all of this at all.
I would say that the perspectives of the government as well as first responders were not included in this film. They were not able to communicate the stresses as well as the lack of resources and man power. There were no viewpoints from first responders or volunteers, having that testimony would have more accurately depicted the hardships that first responders and aid were facing.
There were a few notable viewpoints that were not included. First, those on the international level, but also the doctors and those managing the outbreak (other than the one Ebola response member that was interviewed).
They did not include the viewpoint of fire fighters in this film, who were also important in the response to this disaster.
The government and politicians that released the information do not share their defense of why they cut information out, at the cost of the people and responders.