ANTH 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ecological Debt
8 Jun 2016
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Malthus: it has appeared that form the inevitable laws of our nature some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. People should be idealistic. how many extras can we produce without having an ecological impact . If we were productive with our food production then we could possibly feed twice the population of the earth. Colonialism: the colonies were to manufacture not a nail, not a horseshoe, they were to produce raw materials only. Oil = mar rive footprint (internal and external trade) A victim is not the culprit or the aggressor, we tend to separate both categories. Innocence: the fact that trinidad is doomed to drown, allows them to effect some sort of whitewashing. They will try to represent themselves as victims and not aggressors.
