U.N. official: Role in climate fight is 'sacred' DAVOS, Switzerland -- The top climate official at the United Nations has described her role in pushing nations to contain the Earth's climate as a "sacred" job.
Safe Limit for Global Warming Is Lowered Dramatically by Experts. Global study makes economic case on climate change. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new global initiative wants to present a more persuasive argument for action on climate change by focusing on the economic benefits of doing so.
The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate is launching a year-long study to analyze the economic costs and benefits of acting against climate change. The results of the study, which will be undertaken by research institutes on five continents, will be released in September 2014 — before a climate change conference that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Tuesday.
"The world faces two great challenges: to fight poverty and to fight global warming," Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said at the launch of the initiative on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. The commission's chair, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon, said a persuasive argument that fighting climate change will lead to economic growth could persuade more governments and companies to take part. Edit Your Petition. The Great Turning. The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization.
The ecological and social crises we face are inflamed by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth. This self-destructing political economy sets its goals and measures its performance in terms of ever-increasing corporate profits--in other words by how fast materials can be extracted from Earth and turned into consumer products, weapons, and waste. A revolution is underway because people are realizing that our needs can be met without destroying our world. We have the technical knowledge, the communication tools, and material resources to grow enough food, ensure clean air and water, and meet rational energy needs.
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Without educational and business training, they have difficulty getting banks to provide capital for new products, and to scale-up their businesses.
Understanding Human Happiness and Well Being. Understanding Human Happiness and Well-Being An Age-Old Challenge Understanding the determinants of human happiness and well-being is important in the quest for ecological sustainability (and social justice), because it helps us decide how to best use the limited material throughput available, and identify what other, non-material factors are important.
Philosophers, theologians and social thinkers have wrestled with these questions for centuries. Their conclusions vary in detail but all agree that both material and non-material factors are important. New Data from Social Scientists More recently various social scientists have researched human happiness around the world.1 Some common findings emerge, despite using different experimental and survey methods and exploring the issue in very different countries. Economic Growth and Personal Happiness Studies of the relationship between economic growth measured by GDP and personal levels of happiness report Personal Costs of Materialism.
Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of collapse. The world's oceans are facing a bleak future, say marine scientists, unless we rebuild its abundance, variety and vitality.
Population With Alzheimer's Disease Will Triple by 2050. As its population gets older in the coming decades, America can expect a dramatic rise in the number of people with Alzheimer's disease.
By 2050, the number of Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's will have tripled, to 13.8 million, from 4.7 million in 2010, according to a new study. "It will place a huge burden on society, disabling more people who develop the disease, challenging their caregivers and straining medical and social safety nets," said researcher Jennifer Weuve, an assistant professor of medicine at Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, in Chicago.
The increase will be largely due to the aging Baby Boomer generation, Weuve said. The new estimates are based on the current and projected populations of the United States (using information from the 2000 census), the incidence of Alzheimer's disease, population death rates and other factors. The study estimates that the number of people age 65 and older in 2050 will be 88.5 million, compared with 40.3 million in 2010. Why Bother to Protest? Fear and hopelessness can keep people from exercising their power of free speech or their right to assembly; they don’t think that they can make a difference, so they don’t even try.
But while one person may not hold much influence, groups of people working together and standing up for what they believe in can — and do. Photo by Elvert Barnes - My dad got arrested last week. Environmental Psychology – Big Picture Questions. Hello world!
I am slowly emerging from a recent whirlwind journey through the annals of psychology. I submitted my major candidacy exam this week, after six months of critically reading articles, books, chapters, and reviews.