Clase 2 ética ma economía
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Para discutir y reflexionar sobre los problemas ambientales y la aproximación de la economía a ellos
Just as ingenuity came to the rescue in the past, allowing people to use resources more efficiently than they ever had before, it could do so again — providing us with ways to emit far less carbon for every dollar of gross domestic product.Lo que se necesita entonces son precios de combustibles fósiles más altos, cap and trade o impuestos son las alternativas inmediatas para alcanzarlo y esas son medidas políticas que lastimosamente no son atractivas para los políticos de turno
And I — like many others, I imagine — would be thrilled if that were what the future held. But I think there are two big reasons to doubt that we’re on another Ehrlich-Simon path when it comes to global warming.
The first is basic economics. When the problem is resource scarcity, companies and individuals have a powerful incentive to become more efficient. It keeps their costs down. Mr. Simon understood this, and it’s the fundamental reason he won the bet.
But global warming is different. The fact that carbon emissions are warming the planet doesn’t make it more expensive to produce those emissions. So companies do not have an ever-increasing incentive to emit less — the way they would if the problem were, say, a lack of oil. Global warming doesn’t solve itself the way that resource scarcity does.
A draft compromise on whaling released by a working group of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) today set a dangerous precedent that the international community must reject, the Switzerland-based conservation charity WWF said.
Since the imposition of the commercial whaling moratorium in 1985/86, over 33,000 whales have been killed by whaling under objection, reservation and special permit--whaling over which IWC has no control. And these takes have been increasing each year. In 1990, just over 300 whales were taken; in 1995 there were around 750 whales taken; in 2000 they were around 1000 whales; and over the last five years takes have been between 1700 and 1900 whales," the compromise document states.Información completa
Free-market, anti-climate change think tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the U.S. and the International Policy Network in the U.K. have received grants totaling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company Exxon Mobil. Both organizations have funded international seminars pulling together climate change deniers from across the globe.Y en Colombia ¿quienes serán los escepticos?