Is Economic Development Compatible with Ecosystem Health

摘要: The incessant quest for economic growth has dominated human energies centuries. However, the costs in terms of social and ecological disruption have seldom been taken into account. In consequence, Earth’s ecosystems increasingly disabled. root problem lies archaic thinking that is completely divorced from natural process. This entrains notions unlimited substitution scarce resources, without limits, myth nature’s services are never-ending supply. If there to be a viable future humankind, this must give way realization process steadily undermined one most critical societal goals, namely, preserving health integrity earth’s ecosystems. we find our way, development tempered by realities.