Monday, February 2, 2009

"Paths to a Green World"

This is just an outline of the four worldviews that Clapp mentions in her article. These themes are pretty general and I bet that they'll come up again, so I've listed them here but if anyone can add to them and create a kind of study guide out of this it would be greatly appreciated. 

1.) Market Liberals: Believe that economic growth is essential for human welfare, see globalization as a positive force, feel that economic degradation causes poverty, draws on moderate examples of economic damage. 
2.) Institutionalists: Stress the need for stronger global institutions, feel that global institutions can enhance the capacity of the state.
3.) Bioenvironmentalists: See the planet as fragile, can only support Earth to its "carrying capacity", population growth is the biggest stress to the Earth.
4.) Social greens: Activists, hate industrialism and inequity between the first and third world countries, view globalization as domination and control, embrace indigenous knowledge systems versus Western ones. 

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