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Environmental problems can not be analyzed nor understand if you do not take
into account a global perspective, as they arise from multiple interacting factors.
Our way of life is an expense increasingly growing and unsustainable natural
and energy resources.
Industrial forms of mass
production and consumption
that make it possible in the
medium term imply the
destruction of the planet. Some
effects of the ecological crisis
are already clearly visible:
rising temperatures, hole in the
ozone layer, desertification,
accumulation of radioactive
waste, spread of diseases like
cancer or malaria, poor health
of freshwater, food insecurity,
depletion renewable and non-
renewable resources, etc.
Wastage societies direct impact on the poverty of others and contributes to the
overall environmental deterioration. It is known that only 23% of the world
population, industrialized countries consume 80% of world commercial energy
production, 79% of steel, 85% of paper and 86% of non-ferrous metals.
There are
new ideas
that help us
see and
understand
the
environmental problem
Our planet can be seen as a "spaceship" with limited resources.
In 1966 the famous economist Keneth E. Boulding ecological used the idea that
the earth is like a spacecraft, manned by thousands of millions of passengers
with limited resources to be used rationally and moderately to ensure the
survival of the humanity. This idea, expressed in economic theory Boulding,
became a great contribution to the awareness that we live in a finite world.
Nature can be considered as a "company" provider of goods and
services.
Robert Constanza, one of the greatest exponents of modern Ecological
Economics, introduced the concept that nature is a major supplier company
business of goods and services, which operates independently of the market
and provides us with the essential ecological services and facilities for our well-
being .
The great natural company provides us, among other things, oxygen, fresh
water, regulating climate, energy, materials and other essential items for our
existence. This company does not charge us money as well as provide us with
the essential elements of climatizar our environment and keep it in the right
conditions for our life, also it gives us the reception and recycling of our waste
products. Daily captures and cleanses the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and
other gases produced, recycle our wastewater and other waste materials
generated in our human life.
This important concept of ecological economics, it helps us visualize our life
support and awareness that our lives depend on it.
We see the need to
prevent with our
activities, we continue
damaging, destroying or
reducing the size of this
"great natural company"
must attend daily to the
thousands of millions of
inhabitants of our planet,
because we are getting
serious risk its ability to
continue supplying all
mankind.