Economics 1021A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Herman Daly, Carrying Capacity, Copernican Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: Economics
• Course: Economics 1021A/B
• Professor: bruce hammond

Document Summary

Discourse with an apocalyptic and urgent tone, environmental changes being necessary. More sense of urgency but people are more desensitivised, and it"s more inclusive now (e. g. social movements) How to tackle the limits to growth and survival according to authors. Meadows a world government is not necessary to deal with global problems, but it is necessary to have global scientific cooperation, a global information system, and an international forum within which specific agreements can be worked out. Dryzek, page 39: more scientific expertise in government. Dryzek, 2013, chapter 2: looming tragedy: limits, boundaries, survival. Carrying capacity: the maximum population of a species that an eco-system can support in perpetuity. When carrying capacity is exceeded the ecosystem degrades and population crashes. Ecological burdens imposed by each human all vary immensely. Number of humans is growing, and with it the amount consumed per human (economic growth)