INTD 200 Lecture Notes - United Nations General Assembly, Cyanide Fishing, Northern Canada
19 Dec 2012
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Until the 1970"s, development focused on increasing productivity (gdp growth) with little concern for the environment. The profits from these industrial projects didn"t actually reach the people of third world nations, and the benefits don"t outweigh the environmental impacts. Ex, the hydroelectric dams are portrayed as environmentally friendly (better than coal) and as a great way to provide electricity. There was so much protest the world bank stopped building dams for a while. Changing perspectives on the environmental and the development: increased environmental awareness started in the 1970s. 1972 growing debates over limits of growth. The club of rome published an argument that argued in favor of a global effort to curtail population growth, production and consumption. Thomas mathis thought that population growth was exponential and food production wasn"t; therefore only a certain amount of people can be supported on a certain size of land. 1983 new ideas about sustainable development, greater emphasis on poverty as well as the environment.
