The Issues of Population growth and Environmental Security
This is an article from Polymic which examines issues of population growth and environmental security. This article examines these problems from a Malthusian perspective and at one point suggests that China and US may have conflict with each other in the near future over the scarcity or resources. This is the idea of ‘Violent environments’ as Wolfram Dressler addressed in our lecture. This article however, does fail to make any mention of the unequal causes of this problem. The author also states that ‘the environment does not care about borders as both the causes and effects of degradation are transnational’. This is an example of Conscious Ignorance penetrating media sources as to the causes and effects of climate change as it is not in fact a shared process (Chambers 1997).
Chambers, R. 1997. Whose reality counts? Putting the first last. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.
