GEOG 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rational Agent, Maoism, Garrett Hardin

• School: Oregon State University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 300
• Professor: J. Tilt

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Preventative moral restraint less dissipation of wealth not. & war for birth to happen , death must occur masses were incapable of exercising moral restrain. World can support only a finite population when a resource is held in rational actor will try to thinks like this , then the commons among interested benefit more get person. 52 we must abandon the common system in breeding . not allow people to have unlimited numbers. The commons system for breeding must be abandoned problem is then to gain peoples consent to a system of coercion trade off between human numbers and quality of life must remain. Child policy are likely to have negative unintended consequences . Bet between biologist and an economist over population growth . Ehrlich because people invented substitutes latter natives environmental debate catastrophe vs . everything is going to be great. Communist party had a lot of people halt a billion. Zedong thought it was a good thing .