INTS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Clean Technology, Global Commons, Ecocentrism
2 Feb 2017
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Mostly fossil fuels used for e today. Co2 and temperature are closely related direct: made of carbon so makes co2, powerful but problematic, unsustainable, 1 million times faster than they are available. Co2 and o2 indirectly related: comes from burning something then. China: using mostly economically good advances, right now laboratory, they are trying to turn it into clean tech lab. Historical process of globalization: capital accumulation, economic growth. Classifying issues: global commons (oceans, aquifers, shared natural resources (rain forests, trans boundary externalities (acid rain, pollution, loss of biodiversity, linked issues (unsustainable depletion of aquifers, desertification, climate change) Dark greens vs. light greens: radical assume fundamental practices will have consequences in future, dark, light, not too worried. States compete in an anarchical system: liberal, radical. Why so many states did cooperation in ratifying kyoto, even. Rivalry between capitalist states makes cooperation unlikely though us didn"t. Conservative will find market based solutions. Need economic growth: environmental studies debates, technocentric, ecocentric.
