There is a Chinese proverb: "If you want to be rich, build roads first; if roads are open, all businesses will flourish." Many studies have shown that the construction of transportation infrastructure has played an important ...
Economics & Business
May 17, 2022
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Proponents of degrowth have long argued that economic growth is detrimental to the environment. Now, scientists show that curbing growth alone would not make the food system sustainable—but changing what we eat and putting ...
Environment
May 16, 2022
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Human beings are social animals. This means, almost as a matter of logical necessity, that humans' quality of life is largely decided by the quality of their societies.
Social Sciences
May 11, 2022
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There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC's working groups—those focused on climate change impacts ...
Economics & Business
Apr 29, 2022
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When the 2015 Paris Agreement set a long-term goal of keeping global warming "well below 2 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels" to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, it did not specify how its nearly ...
Environment
Apr 25, 2022
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Zimbabwe is the largest tobacco producer in Africa and in 2018, the crop accounted for about 10% of the country's gross domestic product. Zimbabwe's hopes to become an upper middle-income economy by 2030, therefore, depend ...
Economics & Business
Apr 18, 2022
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Hainan has a unique tropical environment with abundant biodiversity and is home to over 400 species of birds. The island in southern China has experienced fast economic development changes over the past 20 years, and although ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2022
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Proponents of clean energy and thinks tanks have long said it's possible to reduce emissions and keep an economy growing. Now the latest report from the world's top climate scientists says 18 countries have done just that, ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2022
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A new paper in Oxford Open Energy indicates that countries can get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while maintaining economic growth.
Environment
Mar 30, 2022
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While landlubbing house hunters sure don't have it easy these days, there's another community—one that dwarfs the human population in size—that is also suffering the woes of shrinking real estate: animals that live in ...
Environment
Mar 28, 2022
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