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This year, the US will spend around $450 billion for the military, including the costs of the Iraq War, while it will spend no more than $15 billion to overcome global poverty, global environmental degradation, and global diseases.
If the US really wants to undercut terrorism, it must recognize the interconnectedness of extremism, poverty, and environmental degradation, and it will need to understand the struggles for survival that are underway among the poor everywhere.
Dealing with deforestation and forest
degradation
cannot wait until 2020.
More broadly, all countries responsible for the
degradation
and destruction of the South China Sea’s shallow-water ecosystems must halt activities that threaten the region’s biodiversity and economic productivity.
Several more countries have laws that set the minimum work age between 12 and 16, but the ILO cautions that few countries "have what could be considered a comprehensive prohibition of dangerous work for young children," and that even fewer have "measures to protect young persons from moral degradation."
Once a world leader in the fight against environmental degradation, America was the last major economy to acknowledge the reality of climate change.
The result has been utter failure: military defeat and a severe
degradation
of America’s moral standing.
According to international standards (such as ASTM D6954), the use of OBP would demand proof of
degradation
and biodegradation, and confirmation that there are no heavy metals or eco-toxicity.
It must be sustainable: growth based on environmental degradation, a debt-financed consumption binge, or the exploitation of scarce natural resources, without reinvesting the proceeds, is not sustainable.
China’s Vicious Growth CircleLONDON – Most economists have a reason to be worried about China’s economy – whether it be low consumption and large external surpluses, industrial overcapacity, environmental degradation, or government interventions like capital controls or financial repression.
In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the
degradation
of human dignity has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.
And worse disasters will surely occur as the changing climate interacts with other social ills such as poverty, environmental degradation, population growth, urbanization, and poor land use.
The result has been rapid
degradation
of water bodies.
The spate of sex scandals is a sign of more serious corruption and
degradation
than most commentators seem to realize.
Skepticism regarding the need for environmental action arises from the relationship between environmental
degradation
and per capita income.
According to the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC),
degradation
and pollution increase enormously at the early stages of economic growth.
But such growth is often accompanied by environmental degradation, which diminishes human health and quality of life, threatens water supplies, and compromises ecosystems, impeding growth for future generations.
They rightly contest the
degradation
of their ancestors, but also idealize their rural, communitarian nature.
More recently, human activity has undergone what is being called the Great Acceleration: the rapid intensification of resource consumption and ecological
degradation.
And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental
degradation
and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country’s atmosphere and water supply.
Today, issues such as infectious diseases, environmental degradation, electronic crimes, weapons of mass destruction, and the impact of new technologies are of importance.
But, early in the process, mechanization brought negative consequences, like unemployment, child labor, and environmental
degradation.
The
degradation
of freshwater ecosystems often brings disease, just as the protection or strengthening of such ecosystems improves health outcomes.
Worldwide, around 40% of cities’ source watersheds show high to moderate levels of
degradation.
Sediment from agricultural and other sources increases the cost of water treatment, while loss of natural vegetation and land
degradation
can change water-flow patterns.
With a growing share of the world’s population – including many of the same people – feeling the effects of environmental
degradation
and climate change firsthand, finding solutions that simultaneously advance environmental protection, water provision, and health could not be more important.
In the run-up to that meeting, governments worldwide should note one critical, but often overlooked, fact: the single biggest driver of environmental
degradation
and resource stress today is our changing diet – a diet that is not particularly conducive to a healthy life, either.
Yet the overwhelming feeling is one of chaos and
degradation.
All of this physical
degradation
– as it happens – is accomplished with local consent and active local assistance.
A good-faith, well-publicized official declaration would signal to India’s citizens and the world that the country intends to save its growing population from the life-shortening effects of urban environmental
degradation.
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