4) Both essays take continued ecological sustainability as a goal. In fact even

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4) Both essays take continued ecological sustainability as a goal. In fact even the eco-modernist paper has detractors who feel it is too extreme. Many economists and politicians treat economic growth as a primary goal, and oppose most (all) limitations on individuals and corporations in their pursuit of economic growth. How do you see balance for humans and the natural world? Your score is 100% independent of your position, rather it is based on the strength of your argument. Be thoughtful and honest.

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The relationship between economic growth, human well being, and the achievement of sustainable future has a long and complex history. The right of the present generation to use what it needs and all it needs of the natural resources now available equally obligation to use what we need . It anticipate the seminar work of the world commission on Environment and development, which defined "sustainable development" as a process that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It suggests that sustainable future will come into being if social condition needed to support economic activity. It emphasizes meeting needs rather than promoting growth or satisfying consumer preference as development. It was predicted that natural resource depletion and environmental degradation would lead to an irreversible collapse of the global economy by the early 21st century. In this analysis, avoiding catastrophe would be possible if and only if :

1. Human fertility was limited to the replacement rate to stabilize population.

2. Natural resource use and pollution per unit of industrial output was cut by at least 75 percent.

3. Goods and services were redistributed from the rich to the poor to provide a high quality of life for all members of the global community.

4. Industrial production was stabilized at the level prevailing in the late 21st century.

There are some issues focusing especially on climate change. First, the perception that there is a hard trade-off between the goals of economic growth and environmental sustainability rests on a contestable empirical premise, a large body of literature in the fields of engineering and economic establishes that those costs would be too small to substantially affect the overall rate of economic growth. Second, the economic growth necessarily leads to an enhanced quality of life and improved human flourishing in high income societies is also problematic from a social science perspective. In poor societies, growth can provide material goods that can satisfy urgent needs given just institutions that allocate goods and services to the impoverished.the climate stabilization could be achieved without large impact on the rate of short run economic growth and that, the results would be a world of enhanced life opportunities for members of future generations. Sustainable economic welfare measures of social welfare that is, the consumption of private goods and services bought and sold on markets, the social costs of inequality, net capital investment, environmental degradation , and natural resource depletion.

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