SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Climate Change Adaptation, Ocean Acidification, Ecological Footprint
8 May 2017
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More than just social change, because social change is a natural process while development requires effort. Has to do with an end goal and thus becomes a project of betterment. Development is like a guiding star for policymaking but more like a shooting star. Losing its energy over time as a project. Mcmichael says today"s project is about how we survive the future vs how to improve the past. Requires strategic endeavor to reverse our ecological footprint because we have overshot the earth"s bio capacity. We are overshooting how much the earth can support. As populations grow and consumption increases we must measure nature"s capacity. We are probably consuming and wasting more than we need, which hurts everybody. We have crossed 3/9 designated planetary operational boundaries. For example, we need more than the earth can provide if things continue at this rate. Climate change, biodiversity, and the nitrogen cycle have crossed.
