The Global Contradiction of The 21rst Century

Authors

  • Jan Eric Lane

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.16.544

Keywords:

ecological sustainability, greenhouse gases, energy consumption, growth-environment problematic, micro versus macro.

Abstract

Economic growth and environmental sustainability has been much debated: Can they be combined to give both prosperity and environmental protection?  On the micro level, many projects show that this is indeed possible. But on the macro level, global emissions of greenhouse gases follow the advancement of country affluence closely. The link is the constantly increasing need for more energy, provided by fossil fuels.

References

Data for GDP, GDP per capita, population: World Bank Data indicators: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator

Energy consumption data: Enerdata Global Statistical Yearbook: http://yearbook.enerdata.net

Greenhouse gas emission data: World Resources Institute CAIT2, http://cait2.wri.org.

EIA: Energy Outlook for 2014: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/

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Published

2014-10-28

How to Cite

Lane, J. E. (2014). The Global Contradiction of The 21rst Century. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 1(6), 76–80. https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.16.544

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Vol. 1 No. 6 (2014): Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal

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