PHIL448 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Overgrazing, Shared Space, Westron
22 Dec 2016
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Population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. Technical solution: one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality. Population problem is part of the no technical solution class. Finite world can support only a finite population population growth must eventually equal 0. If we want to maximize population we must make the work calories per person approach as close to zero as possible (no fancy vacation) Impossible to measure/compare goods different for everyone. Adam smith laissez-faire invisible hand that guides man toward a decision that promotes the public interest, when looking for his own gain. Positive component function of the increment of one animal. Pollution: rational man his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
