This lecture will help you understand Central

This lecture will help you understand:

Central Case: The Mirrar Clan Confronts the Jabiluka Uranium Mine

Ethics and economics

Culture and worldview

Worldviews differ among people

Many factors shape worldviews

Ethics

Environmental ethics

We have expanded our ethical consideration

Expanding ethical concern

Western ethical expansion

History of environmental ethics

The preservation ethic

The conservation ethic

The land ethic

Deep ecology, ecofeminism, and justice

Environmental justice (EJ)

Environmental justice and Native Americans

Economics

Types of modern economies

Government intervenes in a market economy

Conventional view of economics

Environmental view of economics

Environmental systems support economies

Classical economics

Neoclassical economics

Marginal benefit and cost curves

Neoclassical economics

Assumption: Resources are infinite

Assumption: Costs and benefits are internal

Assumptions: Long-term effects are discounted and growth is good

Is the growth paradigm good for us?

Is economic growth sustainable?

Other types of economists

A steady state economy

GPI: An alternative to the GDP

More “green accounting” indicators

Valuing ecosystems goods and services

Assigning value to ecosystem services

Markets can fail

Ecolabeling addresses market failures

Corporations are responding to concerns

Conclusion