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Techno-Optimists, Uncertainty & Risk, Muhammad Hadi Bin Yusof |…
Techno-Optimists
Limits: Pollution
Air pollution
Water pollution
Soil contamination
Radioactive contamination
Thermal pollution
Climate Change
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: 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 to Growth
Unlimited economic growth is constrained by Biophysical limits and Moral limits
Uncertainty & Risk
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
Progress: Growth and Prosperity
Sustainability
Natural and human capital are complements not substitutes
Certain natural capital has no substitute
Muhammad Hadi Bin Yusof | CE170130
Global Issues and Sustainable Development