HARRY 3 on Nostr: A novel take on factors causing Climate Change and the need for ESG from the ...
A novel take on factors causing Climate Change and the need for ESG from the “Sovereign Individual “
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Subsidies, windfalls, and the prospect of economic opportunity remove the immediacy of needing to conserve. The mantras of democracy, redistribution and economic development raise expectations and fertility rates, fostering population growth and thereby steepening a downward environmental and economic spiral. - Virginia Abernathy.
There is strong evidence suggesting that foreign aid and promises of intervention to forestall famine and increase living standards have been major factors stimulating population growth that exceeds the carrying capacities of backward economies. The startling growth of world population since WW11, with its often destructive impact on forests, soils, and water resources, can be traced to intervention on a global scale.
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Subsidies, windfalls, and the prospect of economic opportunity remove the immediacy of needing to conserve. The mantras of democracy, redistribution and economic development raise expectations and fertility rates, fostering population growth and thereby steepening a downward environmental and economic spiral. - Virginia Abernathy.
There is strong evidence suggesting that foreign aid and promises of intervention to forestall famine and increase living standards have been major factors stimulating population growth that exceeds the carrying capacities of backward economies. The startling growth of world population since WW11, with its often destructive impact on forests, soils, and water resources, can be traced to intervention on a global scale.