Sociology 2228A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Double Entendre, Permaculture, Kyoto Protocol
10 Apr 2020
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Rostow"s terminal stage of high mass consumption is now perhaps a double entendre. A reason for not reducing the value of ecosystems to market prices is that their processes and elements are not independent units. Their value lies in their interdependent complexity. Earth is a physiological system that behaves as if it were alive. Anthropocene human impact on the earth"s system. The development paradigm overall has privileged monetary relations and measures often the cost of nonmonetary resources. We are intensifying the environmentalist"s paradox rising well-being is accompanied by deteriorating environments. Narrowing our ecological foundations and therefore our ability to survive climatic change. Megadroughts and mass starvation and nuclear war. Resulting from conflict between china, india, and pakistan over access to water and food. 20% of the world"s population are responsible for about 70% of all greenhouse gas. Business as usual views climate change as an opportunity, claiming the world must adapt to what it has become.
