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PHILOSOPHY 102 (STOLZE). Notes on Dale Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment , chapter 7. Measuring Environmental Impact. Measuring individual and collective ecological footprints The IPAT formula: Impact (I) = Population (P) x Affluence (A) x Technology (T). Questions of Justice.
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PHILOSOPHY 102 (STOLZE) Notes on Dale Jamieson, Ethics and the Environment, chapter 7
Measuring Environmental Impact • Measuring individual and collective ecological footprints • The IPAT formula: Impact (I) = Population (P) x Affluence (A) x Technology (T)
Questions of Justice • A spatial dimension: the link between global poverty and climate disruption • A temporal dimension: our duties to future generations
Spaceship or Lifeboat Earth? • Spaceship and Lifeboat Analogies • Boulding’s “sharing ethic” leads to what Hardin has called the “tragedy of the commons” (p. 193).
Three Possible Future Environmental Scenarios • Environmental catastrophe • Global inequality and environmental degradation continue and increase • A change in the way of life of the world’s most privileged people
Growth, Sustainability, and Happiness • Sustainable development (as opposed to unlimited economic growth”) was defined in a 1987 report by the U.N.’s Brundtland Commission as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs” (p. 195). • Diener and Mill on materialism and human happiness • Reasons for despair, reasons for hope…