INTST101 Lecture 11: Chapter 11
14 Sep 2016
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Global environmental movement: individuals (e. g. john muir, rachel carson, events (e. g. love canal/minamata , social movements (e. g. greenpeace, large-scale anthropogenic impacts (e. g. acid rain, tropical deforestation) Portugese came and destroyed parts of th atlantic forest in brazil. Deforestation, dams and hunting: biodiversity & biological hotspots. Biodiversity : measure of variability among genes plant and animal species and ecosystems found in nature : measure of richness in life: human activity and extinctions. Nepalese rhinos : poaching: general criticisms of environmentalism, the tragedy of the commons". Garret hardin argued that resources held in common such as fisheries tend towards disastrous overuse because individual actors can benefit from actions that are collectively disastrous. He believes that this should call for privatization: proposed solutions to species loss/environmental degradation, the evolution of global environmental governance. Came in wealthy northern economies mostly us. John leur founder of a sear club in us a transnational org.
