Issue |
Solutions |
Probable realities |
0. Quality of life (well-being) |
a. Wealth creation (money)
b. Happiness and contentment with a lifestyle that meets the basic needs for sustenance in a dignified way.
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Money makes life easier but does not necessarily make a happy life.
The wealthier lifestyles entail negative environmental effects and tend to increase worries. |
1. Sustainable Development |
Expand the economies and trade (economic growth) |
Growth on a finite planet is not sustainable. |
2. "Overshoot"
(too many people consuming too much resources |
a. Raising efficiency, internalisation "green economy", etc.
b. Contraction and reduction. |
The conventional "economic" models are not valid.
Contraction and reduction is not yet happening because societal leaders don't see the necessity. |
3. Food - for present and future populations |
a. Increase agricultural production
b. Redistribution
c. Trade & development
d. Population growth control |
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4. Climate Change |
a. Technology
b. Emissions trading
c. Green Growth
d. Replace fossil energies
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Technology |
5. Energy scarcities |
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6. Resource depletion |
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8. Pollution |
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... HOT-people idea . |