GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Our Common Future, Environmental Determinism, Eugene Odum
26 Feb 2016
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Population control by putting taxes on essentials for babies. Production goes up incrementally but population can grow exponentially. 1972: the stockholm declaration- 1st global excerise for global leaders to discuss environment. 1987: our common future ( aka: the brundtland report) 1992: un conference on environment and development(rio de janeiro) Ehrlich: the balanced planet is limited biophysical and environmental limits version of determinism: environmental determinism holds that the environment shapes and constrains human activity. Ehrlich conclusion: limited resource are a collision course with population growth, when the commons collapse there will be widespread suffering. Human development is lifting people out of poverty. Resources are not limited: there is neutral nature that active humans put to use. Functionalist definition of resources: resources are not, they become - erich zimmerman, More people is better because it increases value: ultilarian ethic- greatest good for the greatest number. Population is not a problem and in fact increases wellbeing as a humans adapt and innovate.
