Environmental crises surround us: global warming, hazardous waste, resource depletion, air pollution and many more.
We believe that economic development should not be done at the expense of environmental exploitation and resource depletion.
UNESCO: Speech by Hon Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin During the 184th UNESCO Executive Board Meeting,
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn described several profound changes that have taken place since the 1990 Jomtien Conference on Education for All, from climate change and natural resource depletion to rapid urbanization.
In fact, much academic research has shown that the poor are more often victims than perpetrators of resource depletion: it tends to be rich locals or outsiders who are responsible for the worst exploitation.
Either we continue to grow and innovate and hope that we can find an answer to our energy and resource depletion crises, or we place the matter in the hands of governments and use taxation, rationing, and other anti-growth measures.
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The larger economic case is that while of course I agree that there is a real constraint on economic growth from resource depletion, I think that that as a binding constraint is a lot further away than many seem to realise.
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And although obliging a few hundred coal plants to scrub themselves clean may well be useful, many other green issues such as biodiversity, resource depletion, smog and suburbanisation result from countless free actions by firms or individuals, and so are less open to correction from the state.
In other words, they are a sort of savior-entity attempting to address the issue of scarcity and resource depletion by rescuing Earth (and Mars, as well as many other planets) from self-destruction by pooling our resources with a potentially unlimited number of other planets throughout the universe.
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Mountain regions, particularly in tropical regions where they are prime human habitat, are increasingly threatened by climate change, demographic pressure, and economic development that in many cases lead to resource depletion and degradation, hindering the provision of critical goods and services to both mountain inhabitants and lowland communities.
As much as 20, 000 tonnes, or one third of total exports of REs were smuggled out of China, which both reduces the price of the metals and ensures the more voracious depletion of the resource.
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