REM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Worldwatch Institute, The Population Bomb, Eugenius Warming

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Resource & Environmtl Mgmt
• Course: REM 100
• Professor: Pascal Haegeli

Document Summary

Environmentalists tend to believe that, ecologically speaking, things are getting worse and worse. Bjorn lomborg, once deep green himself, argues that they are wrong in almost every particular. Ecology and economics should push in the same direction. After all, the eco part of each word derives from the greek word for home, and the protagonists of both claim to have humanity"s welfare as their goal. Yet environmentalists and economists are often at loggerheads. For economists, the world seems to be getting better. For many environmentalists, it seems to be getting worse. These environmentalists, led by such veterans as paul ehrlich of stanford university, and. Human activity is thus defiling the earth, and humanity may end up killing itself in the process. The trouble is, the evidence does not back up this litany. First, energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not less so since the club of rome published the limits to growth in 1972.