TY  - CONF
A1  - Kabashima, Hiroshi
T1  - Social costs, limits to growth, right to growth: an approach to the global environment oriented to philosophy of law
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 018
N2  - The main Question of this paper is: how can we tackle the global warming in accordance with the economical growth especially in emerging countries?
K. W. Kapp, “The Social Costs of Private Enterprise” (1950), defines the social costs as direct or indirect damages which are not compensated by the producer, but added to the third parties. An example might be the disaster of the BP plant in April 2010, in which the polluter can hardly cover all the damages so as to make the seawater clean, to regenerate the harmed natural lives and to recover the jobs and the everyday life of the residents on site.
The Club of Rome, “The Limits to Growth” (1972), makes us aware of the five conditions which set the limits to growth: population, industrialization, pollution, consumption of food and natural resources, which tendentiously increase in a exponential progression. The GDP growth 10% a year means that it will be 2.59 times as large in ten years, whereas technology could resolve problematic concerning five elements at highest in arithmetical progression.
Remarkable would be that the modern industrial civilization has brought social damages in form of global warming. Developed nations have not payed for it yet. All the people in the world should have right to economical growth at any rate, which would however be limited by those five conditions. Conclusion: the developed nations should give up the consumption lifestyle for the sake of equal right of every citizen in the world to reasonable standard of living.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 018 
KW  - global environment
KW  - global warming
KW  - climate change
KW  - Karl William Kapp
KW  - social costs
KW  - social damages
KW  - the Club of Rome
KW  - limits to growth
KW  - exponential progression
KW  - CO2 emission
KW  - Kyoto Protocol
KW  - emerging countries
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24876
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-248766
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -