GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Sustainable Development, Regulatory Capture, Consumerism
Document Summary
Sustainable development and carbon poliics north and south. Industrializaion is associated with growth if general wealth and prosperity. But uneven development has limited the spread of industrial opportuniies and beneits, leading global. South groups to seek more opportuniies to further industrial growth. Industrializaion is associated with growth of broad-based environmental problems. So criics of general industrial growth someimes discourage industrializaion in the global south, claiming globalizaion of global north pracices is unsustainable. This seems to pit economic growth against environmental costs, and equity against sustainability. Dirty" industries just between you and me, shouldn"t lawrence h summers. Strengths and weaknesses of regulaion under condiions of regulatory capture: potenial corporate support for environmental reform, limits of pro-capitalist reforms, issues that are out of bounds for capital. Issues of social jusice and equity under condiions of environmental reform, green consumerism, etc. Environmental record of actually exising socialist countries: ussr/eastern europe, people"s republic of china, cuba.
