GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental Racism
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Chapter 5: race and environmental justice: review: population and mathus. Malthus suggested a gap between population growth and resources would lead to checks on population. Malthusian traditions continue to inform environmental politics the neo- Malthusians" of the 1970s (onwards) and the sierra club. The implications of malthusian approaches are socially and spatially differentiated and are frequently colonial, patriarchal and racialized in orientation. Discussions of population and scarcity presuppose a certain social system and set of assumptions. Why does malthus matter: probably enough food in this world for everyone, fundamental disjunction in ____ and resources, no point providing welfare to the poor, malthusians approaches need to be focused on . Debates on population always predispose a certain social system. Concerns of population tend to normalize our current resources. Some absolute external use of natural to our world. M approach tells that we always runs with an external way.
