Political Science · Political Theory
Which thinker suggested that 'growth mania' is the fundamental cause of environmental disaster?
AKenneth Boulding
BE. F. Schumacher
CHerman Daly ✓ Correct
DTom Regan
Correct answer: (C) Herman Daly — Herman Daly described growth mania as the root cause of environmental disaster, so the answer is Daly.
Explanation
★Herman Daly described growth mania as the root cause of environmental disaster, so the answer is Daly.
★Daly is the leading theorist of steady state economics.
★He argued that the economy must stop growing within the limits of the biosphere.
★Growth mania is the obsession with endless GDP growth on a finite planet.
★He urged stable population and stable stocks of physical wealth instead.
★Kenneth Boulding spoke of spaceship earth and the closed economy.
★Tom Regan is an animal rights philosopher, concerned with the moral status of animals.
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