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Even leaving aside other important dimensions of the issue – such as fear of globalization, growing ethical doubts about contemporary technologies, and concerns about the environmental consequences of growth – redefining progress is a challenge of daunting magnitude.
Environmental pressures are also worsening.
Environmental charges and levies – such as higher registration fees for motor vehicles, pollution charges, and improved cost recovery on utilities – might also help, while simultaneously addressing urban environmental problems.
Only producing bio-fuels without the use of additional land is justifiable in terms of environmental and social policy.
The environmental problems begin early on, with the way the water is sourced.
Some might argue that the safety and health benefits of bottled water offset these environmental consequences.
In the US, environmental concerns have prompted some university campuses and at least 18 national parks to ban the sale of bottled water.
But make no mistake: Bottled water is compounding the world’s resource and environmental challenges.
Climate change looms as this century’s primary long-term environmental challenge.
New technology will determine our lifestyle, and the demands that we make on energy and environmental resources.
For example, we know that some environmental insults and stresses, such as temporary starvation, can affect future generations.
The fossil-fuel industry’s influence is evident in the fact that governments worldwide are expected to spend some $5.3 trillion this year subsidizing it, including the massive outlays necessary to counteract its adverse health and environmental effects.
The Greening of BushThe United States is usually regarded as an environmental laggard, with President George W. Bush perceived as being little better than the head of a gang of willful polluters who do everything they can to obstruct global action to protect the environment.
Indeed, the environmental movement – like most modern social movements – began in the US.
America’s environmental movement was soon exported to Europe and elsewhere: on one hand, the pragmatic Friends of the Earth and the media-oriented organization Greenpeace , and, on the other hand, eco-fundamentalist groups like Earth First! and the Environmental Justice Movement (EJM) or lobbying groups like the World Wildlife Fund.
This movement managed to force the first environmental laws out of the conservative Nixon administration: the National Environmental Act of 1969, the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Clean Water Act of 1972, and the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
“Eco-theology” and evangelical pro-life propaganda have become one of the liveliest branches of the US environmental movement.
Political climate change has also been brought about by people like Jerome Ringo, the president of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) , whose 4.5 million members make it one of the largest environmental organizations.
Those who disdain environmental concerns have been ousted at the polls in large numbers, companies invest huge amounts in environmental technologies, states are suing car producers for their climate-adverse policies, and the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol have long been surpassed by some states – a lesson for German and European cities and municipalities.
Without such cooperation, China’s ambitions would be constrained only by domestic factors, such as a faltering economy, rising social discontent, a worsening environmental crisis, or vicious politics.
Nice has constructed a “connected boulevard," including smart lighting and environmental monitoring.
And it can play an important role as an implementer, translating profits into sustained economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection.
Financial and asset-management institutions can provide positive incentives to such companies – those that incorporate sustainability, long-term thinking, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance criteria in core business models – by allocating assets accordingly.
That framework must also support the private sector and investors in their effort to combine profit maximization with the pursuit of long-term economic, social, and environmental objectives.
The PPP bandwagon has three essential components: an explosion in infrastructure finance (backed by pension and other large funds); the creation of “pipelines” of lucrative mega-PPP projects to exploit countries’ raw materials; and the dismantling of environmental and social safeguards.
Many emerging countries also resent the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguards, which they see as compromising their national sovereignty.
But weaker oversight by the World Bank would leave loan recipients to monitor and enforce environmental and social standards themselves – regardless of their resources or political will to do so –thus jeopardizing efforts to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, resettle displaced people, mitigate environmental damage, or protect forests and biodiversity.
This is vital to enable an effective response to the structural problems – such as corruption, environmental pollution, and inequality – that more than two generations of rapid growth and development have brought.
For example, agriculture and rural affairs have been combined under one ministry, as have all environmental issues.
Asia is the world’s most resource-poor continent, and overexploitation of the natural resources that it does possess has created an environmental crisis that is contributing to regional climate change.
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