POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Collective Action, Joint Implementation, Clean Development Mechanism
15 Oct 2017
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According to many commentators, the earth is currently experiencing multiple environmental crises: Human activity has been identi ed as a primary cause of these environmental crises. At the most basic level, consider population growth: Linear versus geometric (exponential) growth: geometric growth, the absolute number of people year by year is growing 10% of the population doesn"t mean the same thing every year. By 2050 projected to reach 9. 7 billion people in the world. The environment intersects with political issues: global economic development, how rich a state is interconnects with birth rates. Tries to accommodate environmental problems that already exist. Tries to tweak certain things we do already sustainable energy. Viewing the needs of the system as a whole. Environmental issues are political issues, not merely scienti c issues: Because human impact is the cause of the environmental problem, any solution is ultimately a political issue. Mainstream environmentalists conceptualize the problem as being one of.
