WMST 2000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 52 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 2000
• Professor: Martina Meyer

Document Summary

Are there too many people scarcity and population. Mainstream view of environmental problems: prevalent in policies. But: is there a more complicated explanations. Population growth causes env decline: correlations between numbers of people and environmental problems. In using our scarce resources, things will disappear. Scarcity and overpopulation countries with high populatopms. Argument: purchase population offsets introduce family planning in developed nations to offset co2 emissions. Majority of co2 emissions comes from developed nations in the north. Population: too large for safety and comfort. Human population demands surpass the environments capacity to provide us resources: pop oustrips resources (malthus) Population growth and resource scarcity: most important issues to combat. Forms part of how we conduct international env governance. **pops grow exponentially while resources grow arithmetically. War, famine are important for controlling population: advocated against welfare policies poor are responsible for overpopulation famous for policies in imperial india: restricted providing food during famine in.