INTST101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Overfishing, Misanthropy, Devonian
11 Jan 2016
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Case study amazon rain forest and northern arctic: atmosphere and climate issues especially its effect on biodiversity, environmental issues reflect that globalization more powerfully than any other thematic dimension in the text, though some regions are impacted more than others, the points and counterpoints in discourse between environmentalists and pragmatists such as bjorn lomborg , the argument from global south point out that the global north use environmental discourse to advance its interests. the controversial debates between economic development and environment protection, species extinction and biodiversity loss. The skeptical environmentalist (2001): the environmental movement has a long history of waring disasters that never happen, environmentalists" arguments are based on flawed understandings of risks and simplistic models of climate, and pain bad science, environmentalism is romanticized about past and downplays the benefits of economic growth, environmentalism fail to consider the human needs, thus misanthropy, the world"s environment is actually improving.
