POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Polluter Pays Principle, Joint Implementation, Market Failure

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Political science 1g06 2014 lecture 7a the politics of the environment. According to many commentators, the earth is currently experiencing multiple environmental crises: Human activity has been identified as a primary cause of these environmental crises. At the most basic level, consider population growth: By 2050 between 8 and 11b people in the world. This raises several questions with respect to the environment: Environmental issues are political issues, not merely scientific issues: Because human impact is the cause of the environmental problem, any solution is definitively a political issue. Population growth is not even throughout the world. 86% of global population growth is concentrated in the underdeveloped world. Northern tendency to blame the south for over-procreating. By contrast, many developing country governments have noted a correlation between high birth rates and poverty. Lower poverty and you will lower birth rates. Some principles being advocated from the less-developed world: Concern with avoiding redirection of existing developmental resources.

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