Techno-Optimists
Limits to Growth
Unlimited economic growth is constrained by Biophysical limits and Moral limits
Limits: Population & Food
Global Food Supply
Impact of Food Production: 36 Million deaths related to malnutrition each year today
Overpopulation: UN estimates population peak of 9.22 Billion in 2075
Limits: Resources & Energy
Resource scarcity will encourage further discovery
Resource scarcity will encourage substitutes
Resource scarcity will encourage recycling
Resource scarcity will encourage efficiency of use
Limits: Pollution
Air pollution
Water pollution
Soil contamination
Radioactive contamination
Thermal pollution
Climate Change
Uncertainty & Risk
Sustainability
Sustainability
Weak sustainability assumes that different forms of capital are substitutable with one another
Sustainability can be achieved by keeping the total capital at least constant
Natural and human capital are complements not substitutes
Certain natural capital has no substitute
Progress: Growth and Prosperity
Muhammad Hadi Bin Yusof | CE170130
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Global Issues and Sustainable Development