Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it?
Continuous population growth and the concomitant maintenance of a growth sustaining environment are not in conflict only if the rates of both economic and biological processes are slowed down steadily. For this to happen, individual and social impatience-lowering adaptations should be adopted, and t...
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| description | Continuous population growth and the concomitant maintenance of a growth sustaining environment are not in conflict only if the rates of both economic and biological processes are slowed down steadily. For this to happen, individual and social impatience-lowering adaptations should be adopted, and the capital of the system, both economic and natural, has to be redistributed among the system interacting components to result in an ever more complex organizational web. In addition, these factors have to corroborate with a third element, the incorporation of an arsenal of varied technological innovations that improves the use of existing stocks. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-41eab776e2f34a2d888450e8a55df5c62025-02-03T01:31:51ZengWileyDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society1026-02261607-887X1999-01-0132-321522610.1155/S1026022699000230Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it?Shmuel Amir0Division of Applied Physics, Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Yavne 81800, IsraelContinuous population growth and the concomitant maintenance of a growth sustaining environment are not in conflict only if the rates of both economic and biological processes are slowed down steadily. For this to happen, individual and social impatience-lowering adaptations should be adopted, and the capital of the system, both economic and natural, has to be redistributed among the system interacting components to result in an ever more complex organizational web. In addition, these factors have to corroborate with a third element, the incorporation of an arsenal of varied technological innovations that improves the use of existing stocks.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1026022699000230Environmental costsPeriod of productionPopulation growthSustainabilityTechnological progressThermodynamics-based theory of value. |
| spellingShingle | Shmuel Amir Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Environmental costs Period of production Population growth Sustainability Technological progress Thermodynamics-based theory of value. |
| title | Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? |
| title_full | Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? |
| title_fullStr | Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? |
| title_short | Population growth and the environment: Can we eat the cake and have it? |
| title_sort | population growth and the environment can we eat the cake and have it |
| topic | Environmental costs Period of production Population growth Sustainability Technological progress Thermodynamics-based theory of value. |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1026022699000230 |
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