ENVİRONMENTAL SCARCITIES AND NORTHSOUTH RELATIONS

Abstract

ENVİRONMENTAL SCARCITIES AND NORTHSOUTH RELATIONS

Abstract

Throughout history, poverty has bccn the lot of most members of the
human race.1
As we approach the 21 st century, the world is stili sharply
polarized betwecn the rich and the poor - on the one hand, the developed
industrialized Northern countries vvith affluent lifestyles; on the other the less
developed, impoverished Southern countries vvhich aspire to the same model
and level of economic development.
The emcrgence of ecological scarcitics has added a new controversy to
the longstandirıg debate över the strueture of relationships betvveen the North
and the South, for, according to one view, environmental issues are just
another means for the developed countries to continue to control and exploit
the economies of less developed countries, vvhile, from a more optimistic
perspeetive, environmental threats could be utilized as an opportunity for
global coopcration.  

Keywords

• ENVİRONMENTAL SCARCITIES
• NORTHSOUTH
• RELATIONS