Abstract
The atmosphere is kind. It takes the carbon dioxide (CO2) and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases that humans create and disperses them equally all over the world. But that is also its cruelty. The accumulation of these waste gases over the decades, disproportionately from industrial countries but increasingly from some developing ones, is over-whelming the planet’s energy balance and heating up its surface and affecting human wellbeing. Gas flaring and thermal plants emissions in the Niger Delta region are example of such pollutions, this accumulation must end, but how that would happen is hard to imagine. Ecological economics framework is suggested as a more fruitful approach to socio-economic and environmental problems than the now dominant neoclassical paradigm. The background and theories of Neo-classical and ecological economics is given in this paper, as well as the main characteristics of their approach. Differences between neoclassical and ecological economi
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
Nigeria
flares moreÂÂÂ
natural gas associated with oil extraction
than any other country, with estimates suggesting that of the 3.5 billion cubic
feet (100,000,000 m³) of associated gas produced annually, 2.5 billion cubic
feet (70,000,000 m³), or about 70%, is wasted by flaring. This equals
about 25% of the UK