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Jakarta Management Fraud Watch Solutions

on Sustainable development in an

increasingly warming world


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Fueled by technological innovations and globalization, in the last two decades

the worlds economic growth has lifted more than 660 million people out of

poverty and has raised the income level of millions more.

However, such growth has too often come at the expense of the environment.

As the world population has tripled and the global economy expanded tenfold

over the past 60 years, our demands on planet earth have become excessive.

We have been cutting forest trees faster than they can regenerate, over-grazing

rangelands and converting them into deserts, over-pumping aquifers, and

draining rivers dry.

On our agricultural lands, soil erosion exceeds new soil formation, gradually

depriving the soil of its inherent fertility. We have been catching fish from the

ocean faster than they can reproduce, bringing about over-fishing in most partsof the worlds seas and oceans.

We have been discharging pollutants into the environment at a greater level than

its assimilative capacity, resulting in widespread water pollution.


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We have also been emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases

(GHGs) into the atmosphere faster than nature can absorb them, creating a

greenhouse effect and global warming.

As a corollary of this carbon-fixing deficit, atmospheric CO2 concentration

climbed from 316 ppm (parts per million) in 1959, when official measurement

began, to 383 ppm in 2007. Conversion of forests, mangroves, coral reefs and

other natural ecosystems into man-made ecosystems (e.g. settlements,

agricultural land, industrial estates and infrastructure) combined with global

climate change have destroyed plant and animal species far faster than new

species can evolve, launching the first mass extinction since the one that wiped

out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Global warming and its concomitant impacts including rising sea levels,extreme weather, prolonged drought and flooding, heat waves and outbreaks of

diseases will reduce our earths sustainable capacity to produce food, energy

and other natural resources as well as to assimilate various wastes.


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For example, a joint report by the FAO and OECD published recently reveals

that the growth of global agricultural production is projected to slow in the

coming decade, from 2.1 percent a year in the last decade to 1.5 percent

annually from 2013 to 2022.

In summary, throughout history, humans have lived on the earths sustainable

yieldthe interest from its natural endowment.

But since the early 1990s we have been consuming the endowment itself. In

ecology, as in economics, we can consume principal along with interest in the

short run, but in the long run it leads to bankruptcy.

Actually humanitys collective demand first exceeded the earths sustainable

capacity in 1980, and in 1999 surpassed that capacity by 20 percent (US

National Academy of Sciences, 2002).

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