SOC251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: John Maynard Keynes, Robert Heilbroner, Pope Francis
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Balance between population and resources and how migration can be a positive force but also lots of negative indirect affects when there"s too many people. Scarce resources and lessened quality of environment. Thomas malthus: the principle of population, important and controversial. Marx and engels: capitalist system, production and reproduction, counter position to malthusian take on population. Pope francis: importance of taking charge in global warming and we need leadership in this field. The killing of cassandra: greek mythology, someone who could see the future, they killed her because people didn"t want to hear the bad news of the future. A new epoch (following the holocene) beginning in the mid 20th century, when human activities started to have a significant global impact on the earths geology and ecosystems (oil sands in alberta) Anthropocene geological terms discussing the new epic (not complete agreement among scientists)
