IR 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Publicity Stunt, Systems Theory, Resource Depletion
7 Dec 2016
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Stockholm was environmentally relevant because they were getting shafted by the industrial pollution of the british isles. 1992 conference on environment and development (rio, the earth summit ) Response to criticism, developing countries demanded participation. Recognizing the cyclical links between environment and development. Written by a group of scientists, something of rome. Let"s look at consumption behavior patterns, see if there"s anything we can flex to push our limits to growth beyond what we think. Proclaimed 2100 as our deadline for running out. But technology could maybe push it to 2200. Criticized for even trying to predict technology. Inadequate ways of quantifying pollution and population. Rational actor argument, individual utility suggests we should all make use of public access goods as much as possible. In reality the commons were pretty cooperative and regulated, but that"s not necessarily the point. And often people do work together when they can, but some of these problems are so big that we can"t.
