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The answer lies in its oligopolistic power, which enables industrial livestock producers to externalize their true social and environmental costs, which must then be covered by workers and taxpayers.
While many other countries also have considerable shale-gas potential, problems abound, including water scarcity in China, investment security in Argentina, and environmental restrictions in several European countries.
Indeed, the International Energy Agency estimates that the additional precautions needed to ensure shale-gas wells’ environmental safety – including careful attention to seismic conditions, properly sealed shafts, and appropriate waste-water management – add only about 7% to the cost.
His crime was failing to register a small environmental group run by him and his younger brother in their remote home village of Gonjo, in eastern Tibet.
Karma had founded and financed a leading Tibetan environmental organization in 2001, and was named China’s philanthropist of the year in 2006 by China Central Television (for “creating harmony between men and nature”).
His group was awarded a major environmental prize from Ford Motor Company in 2006, and in 2008 the Chinese government described him and his organization as “an extremely beneficial supplement to the government’s environmental protection work.”
Development banks exist to ensure reliability of finance, transparency in decision-making, and long-term environmental considerations.
Parents in affluent societies already provide environmental advantages to their children after birth; reprogenetics could allow them to pursue the same objectives before birth.
Of course, neither environmental nor genetic advantages guarantee healthier, happy, successful children.
If democratic societies allow people to spend money to buy environmental advantages for children, how can they prohibit parents from buying genetic advantages?
At the same time, the public’s demand for environmental protection and other basic rights will inevitably increase production costs.
Similarly, it has been at the vanguard of environmental protection and efforts to combat climate change – from setting tough standards for energy consumption and auto emissions (adopted as federal law in 2016), to pioneering a carbon-pricing system.
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 disaster could have been avoided if strict measures had been taken to preserve water bodies and respect environmental imperatives.
That choice should be based on a comparison of the proposed targets’ economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits.
The evidence is weak, for example, that monitoring initiatives in agriculture or environmental management have had a positive impact.
Quantitative analysis of decisions across many domains, including environmental policy, business investments, and cyber security, has shown that people tend to overestimate the amount of data needed to make a good decision or misunderstand what type of data are needed.
Significant improvement could be achieved by rule changes to accelerate approval of business permits and environmental clearances, simplify labor regulations, and fill judicial vacancies.
The only sane way forward for the US is vigorous and open global cooperation to realize the potential of twenty-first-century science and technology to slash poverty, disease, and environmental threats.
For example, the Genuine Progress Indicator, which adjusts for income distribution and environmental losses, shows that the United States and several other developed economies have not improved their people’s well-being since the late 1970’s.
Institutions must be developed to facilitate progress toward a higher quality of life for a larger proportion of the world’s population, while ensuring that environmental limits are respected – even if it diminishes some countries’ GDP.
The CITES framework, combined with strong national conservation policies, can simultaneously protect wild species and benefit poor, rural, and indigenous people, by encouraging countries and communities to adopt sound environmental management plans.
With investment and proper management, wastewater can become a sustainable source of wealth for many Africans, with added benefits for human health, agricultural productivity, and environmental sustainability.
But the AfDB is determined to provide opportunities that pay dividends for African communities – in public health, improved sanitation, economic development, and environmental protection.
The same get-rich-quick confusion of means and ends is causing Argentina, host of the G-20 Summit later this year, to pursue fracking of natural gas, with all the associated climate and environmental risks, instead of tapping its bounteous potential in wind, solar, and hydro power.
As Francis was meeting the CEOs in Rome last week, Bartholomew was similarly convening leaders of scientific institutions, UN agencies, and major faiths in Athens and the Peloponnese, to chart a path to environmental safety.
The Mediterranean region is already beset by environmental distress and forced migration from conflict zones.
Producers in Jiangsu, for example, were forced to adapt constantly to fickle product-safety and environmental standards in export markets.
NGOs, for example, are already having a major impact, implementing educational programs and even staging protests to raise awareness of the environmental challenges we face.
Investors need to be motivated to assume responsibility for their investments’ environmental impact and to adopt a longer-term view in their risk assessments.
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