POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Market Failure, Clean Development Mechanism, Classical Liberalism
7 Apr 2016
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Political science 1g06 2013 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: ipce community set up by un. At the most basic level, consider population growth: By 2050 between 8 and 11b people in the world. Linear growth over and over (constant amount added) Geometric growth common percentage growing (increasing net amount) Environmental issues are political issues, not merely scientific issues: 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 dependency. Economically rational to have many children (money, jobs: environmental agreements are also political issues:
