A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Abstract This paper criticizes the implicitly ethnocentric, scientistic, and paternalistic, character of the interpretations and analyses of global environmental problems that have been put forward by many Western commentators. It argues that the world is not overpopulated, but that it is underdeveloped. It attacks Neo-Malthusian analyses of the problems of Third World poverty and global environmental disruption. It puts forward the view that (1) environmental problems are primarily political problems with politico-economic causes and politico-economic outcomes, and (2) that it would be morally barbarous, socially regressive, and policy wise ineffective to try and impose population policies on Third World Countries in particular, and the World in general, for these would only tackle the symptoms rather than the causes of world poverty and environmental degradation.
Abstract This paper criticizes the implicitly ethnocentric, scientistic, and paternalistic, character of the interpretations and analyses of global environmental problems that have been put forward by many Western commentators. It argues that the world is not overpopulated, but that it is underdeveloped. It attacks Neo-Malthusian analyses of the problems of Third World poverty and global environmental disruption. It puts forward the view that (1) environmental problems are primarily political problems with politico-economic causes and politico-economic outcomes, and (2) that it would be morally barbarous, socially regressive, and policy wise ineffective to try and impose population policies on Third World Countries in particular, and the World in general, for these would only tackle the symptoms rather than the causes of world poverty and environmental degradation.
Third World attitudes
Lal, Shivaji (author)
Atmospheric Environment ; 7 ; 1217-1227
1973-07-10
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
| Elsevier | 1974
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