Pushing Beyond the Earth's Limits. Lester R. Brown.
by Brown, Lester R; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 14Business. Publisher: Futurist, 2005ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Aquifers | Environmental degradation | Food prices | Food supply | Grain | Population | Water tableDDC classification: 050 Summary: "During the last half of the twentieth century, the world economy expanded sevenfold. In 2000 alone, its growth exceeded that of the entire nineteenth century. Economic growth, now the goal of governments everywhere, has become the status quo. Stability is considered a departure from the norm. As the economy grows, its demands are outgrowing the earth, exceeding many of the planet's natural capacities. While the world economy multiplied sevenfold in just 50 years, the earth's natural life-support systems remained essentially the same." (FUTURIST) The article reveals that "as human demands surpass the earth's natural capacities, expanding food production becomes more difficult."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Pushing Beyond the Earth's Limits, May/June 2005; pp. 18-24.
"During the last half of the twentieth century, the world economy expanded sevenfold. In 2000 alone, its growth exceeded that of the entire nineteenth century. Economic growth, now the goal of governments everywhere, has become the status quo. Stability is considered a departure from the norm. As the economy grows, its demands are outgrowing the earth, exceeding many of the planet's natural capacities. While the world economy multiplied sevenfold in just 50 years, the earth's natural life-support systems remained essentially the same." (FUTURIST) The article reveals that "as human demands surpass the earth's natural capacities, expanding food production becomes more difficult."
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