Gay Marriage Pestle Analysis
PESTLE UNITED STATES
POLITIC:
1) High unemployment and slow growth are still the dominant features of the US economy. Growth during 2011 has been at a very slow pace. While there has been real, if modest job growth in each of the last five months, much of the drop in the official unemployment rate is due to unemployed workers giving up looking for jobs.
* 9.1% (2011 est.)
2) Voters in North Carolina approved a constitutional amendment effectively banning same-sex marriage and US President Barack Obama made clear his view that gay and lesbian couples should have the chance to wed. Obama broke from his long-claimed indecision on the issue of gay marriage to express outright support for the right of homosexual couples to …show more content…
They also second world rank in telephones (main lines in use) with 151 million. Finally in mobile cellular is the 3rd in world rank with 279 million.
2) In broadcast media the have , 4 major terrestrial TV networks with affiliate stations throughout the country, plus cable and satellite networks, independent stations, and a limited public broadcasting sector that is largely supported by private grants; overall, thousands of TV stations broadcasting; multiple national radio networks with large numbers of affiliate stations; while most stations are commercial, National Public Radio (NPR) has a network of some 600 member stations; satellite radio available; overall, nearly 15,000 radio stations operating (2008)
ENVIROMENTAL
1) The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation. By international definitions, the United States has 7448 protected areas, not counting marine areas, as of 2002. These protected areas cover 578,000 square miles (1,500,000 km²), almost 16% of the land area of the United States.[1] This is also one-tenth of the protected land area of the world. U.S. marine protected areas cover an additional …show more content…
Another fifty-seven national parks and hundreds of other federally managed parks and forests have since been formed.[6] Wilderness areas have been established around the country to ensure long-term protection of pristine habitats. Altogether, the U.S. government regulates 1,020,779 square miles (2,643,807 km²), 28.8% of the country's total land area.[7] Protected parks and forestland constitute most of this. As of March 2004, approximately 16% of public land under Bureau of Land Management administration was being leased for commercial oil and natural gas drilling, public land is also leased for mining and cattle
POLITIC:
1) High unemployment and slow growth are still the dominant features of the US economy. Growth during 2011 has been at a very slow pace. While there has been real, if modest job growth in each of the last five months, much of the drop in the official unemployment rate is due to unemployed workers giving up looking for jobs.
* 9.1% (2011 est.)
2) Voters in North Carolina approved a constitutional amendment effectively banning same-sex marriage and US President Barack Obama made clear his view that gay and lesbian couples should have the chance to wed. Obama broke from his long-claimed indecision on the issue of gay marriage to express outright support for the right of homosexual couples to …show more content…
They also second world rank in telephones (main lines in use) with 151 million. Finally in mobile cellular is the 3rd in world rank with 279 million.
2) In broadcast media the have , 4 major terrestrial TV networks with affiliate stations throughout the country, plus cable and satellite networks, independent stations, and a limited public broadcasting sector that is largely supported by private grants; overall, thousands of TV stations broadcasting; multiple national radio networks with large numbers of affiliate stations; while most stations are commercial, National Public Radio (NPR) has a network of some 600 member stations; satellite radio available; overall, nearly 15,000 radio stations operating (2008)
ENVIROMENTAL
1) The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation. By international definitions, the United States has 7448 protected areas, not counting marine areas, as of 2002. These protected areas cover 578,000 square miles (1,500,000 km²), almost 16% of the land area of the United States.[1] This is also one-tenth of the protected land area of the world. U.S. marine protected areas cover an additional …show more content…
Another fifty-seven national parks and hundreds of other federally managed parks and forests have since been formed.[6] Wilderness areas have been established around the country to ensure long-term protection of pristine habitats. Altogether, the U.S. government regulates 1,020,779 square miles (2,643,807 km²), 28.8% of the country's total land area.[7] Protected parks and forestland constitute most of this. As of March 2004, approximately 16% of public land under Bureau of Land Management administration was being leased for commercial oil and natural gas drilling, public land is also leased for mining and cattle