In what way should it develop and disseminate the concept of sustainable ecological development in accordance with the green economy formula in the 21st century?
In my opinion, additional taxation of enterprises in order to obtain funds in this way for the development of renewable energy, development of eco-innovations and reduction of environmental pollution is not the best solution. A better solution is to generate high economic growth based on the successively introduced model of sustainable green economic development implemented according to the green economy concept.
It is necessary to conduct reliable, honest, ethical business and social responsibility of business socio-economic policy while educating the public on the need to implement the necessary pro-ecological reforms in the energy sector as soon as possible by developing renewable energy sources, developing electromobility, efficient waste sorting technologies, improvement recycling, zero-energy construction, elimination of plastic from packaging and conversion to biodegradable plastics, etc.
Then, using such a reliable social and economic policy, it would be possible to extend the periods of host growth in business cycles to generate budgetary surpluses. In the situation of budgetary surpluses in the state budget, a significant part of them should be allocated for state financing of investments in large infrastructural pro-ecological projects, such as nuclear power plants, wind farms, solar panels based on photovoltaic panels and other based on renewable energy sources.
After many years of running this type of pro-ecological socio-economic policy, certain technologies that allowed for the development of ecological innovations and their implementation on an industrial scale will gradually become, and after their dissemination, production costs of certain devices such as household mini-power plants producing renewable energy on the basis of renewable energy. Energy sources will be available for most families living, for example, single-family houses or multi-family housing estates. On the other hand, by popularizing these pro-ecological technologies, companies that produce specific ecological products will generate revenues and profits.
In view of the above, in this way the new green economy will become profitable and will be a kind of a new epoch of the neoclassical economics model enriched with pro-ecological goals and functions. In this way, initially through a centrally planned system, through state intervention in a mainly market economy, through a national pro-ecological socio-economic policy, a new model of the economic system will be built after years, which will function objectively within the framework of sustainable green economic development.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:
In what way should it develop and disseminate the concept of sustainable ecological development in accordance with the green economy formula in the 21st century?
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I invite you to the discussion
Thank you very much
Best wishes
I agree with your argument, but I think that this development will not be possible, without the strong public control of energy, mineral, water or food resources. As long as governments leave these resources in private hands, and in accordance with the laws of the market, change will not be possible.
Good afternoon, nice question. I totally agree with your words. I suggest to improve batteries technology in order to make the solar systems more efficient.
I agree with your argument, but I think that this development will not be possible, without the strong public control of energy, mineral, water or food resources. As long as governments leave these resources in private hands, and in accordance with the laws of the market, change will not be possible.
I also agreed with you arguments and I'm also working in this area from the lens of community based forest management perspectives. You can cite this paper as a reference: Article Ecological and economical sustainability assessment of commu...
Very short. Develop future technologies that consume little energy.
I do not believe that the solution is in consuming less energy, but in producing energy in a non-contaminating way, discarding the production in thermal power plants, for example. Concerning controlling the nuclear fusion process will be a decisive step. No, I do not think the problem is only in the production of energy with contamient processes. For me the problem is in the current economic system, based on permanent growth, for what needs a growth of permanent consumption, which can only be sustained with the permanent growth in the exploitation of resources and energy. A vicious circle of a system that fagocita itself. A system that produces and consumes products far above our real needs, using perverse systems such as programmed obsolescence, to maintain consumption growth in exchange for fleecing future resources and producing unsustainable quantities of waste.
Reducing the problem only to change the way to produce energy, or the reuse of waste, although it is necessary to do so, is like keeping a patient with terminal cancer based on expensive treatments of chemo and radiotherapy; we only postpone his inevitable death in exchange for prolonging his agony.
It is a big question. You might want to look at the concept of the state, and its relationship with society and the market. The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) is redefining state boundary. Then, public-private partnerships (PPP) has the potential to defuse tensions between the state and society, as people seek better services. That can happen only if we win back PPP from petty commercial interests (ponder the proliferation of PPP courses in Western capitals). The two jolts (PPP and 4IR) will play out on the platform of climate change. It is a challenging future, and rich fodder for scholarship. Cf. Preprint Transport and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Therefore, on the basis of considerations and discussions regarding the issue of the legitimacy of the implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development, I formulated the following thesis that in connection with the increasing fires of the Amazon rainforest, the development of human civilization caused a serious ecological disaster of global significance. Therefore, there is no more time to postpone the necessary actions for the future to restore balance in nature. Immediate, large-scale actions are necessary, with the largest commitment of funds being implemented to implement the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development in economic processes, i.e. carrying out pro-ecological reforms in line with the green economy philosophy.
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Sustainable development is an emergency for the current decade and future generations. I think the governments, enterprises, and human beings should be more incite to sustainable practice and sustainable goods and then sustainable development is ensured. This means that the set of reward-penality system is the realistic solution to improve and ensure the spread f sustainable goods and practices and then the sustainability in the other facets.
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
In view of the above, it is also important to include in the above discussion also the following issue:
Determinants of sustainable pro-ecological development according to the green economy philosophy.
To answer the question:
Why we have not noticed and emphasized the negative effects of the crisis of extinction of many species of flora and fauna, and the growing problems related to the growing pollution of the environment, the increase of greenhouse gas emissions, the progressing global warming process and the processes of climate disasters and other problems caused by these processes related to global climate change?
- it is necessary to determine the key determinants of barriers, opportunities and needs related to the issue of implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological economic development conducted in accordance with the green economy philosophy. Given the progressive process of environmental pollution, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the progressing process of global warming and the scale of climate disasters caused by climate change, this is the key question now: Is the economic growth of developing countries more important than environmental protection?
Based on the above considerations and conclusions from the discussion on interesting issues discussed, I formulated the following thesis that One of the most important challenges for humanity in the 21st century is the protection of the Earth's biosphere and natural biodiversity. For such a thesis the key determinants are as follows:
1. In recent years, the number of cases of weather anomalies and climate disasters caused by climate change related to the increasingly faster global warming process has been increasing rapidly.
2. The increasingly faster global warming process is the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions emitted by industry and the energy sector producing electricity and heat based on the burning of minerals.
3. Climatologists estimate that the necessary pro-ecological reforms in global terms should be carried out by 2030 at the latest for effective slowdown of the global warming process to be effective.
4. If this plan is not implemented, then by the end of the 21st century the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by another min. 3-4 degrees, which will result in an increase in climate disasters.
5. Regardless of whether man manages to stop the global warming process in the 21st century or not, humanity should maximize expenditure on the protection of the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, reclamation of a degraded environment, development of renewable energy sources and other key ecological activities and reforms.
6. In connection with the above, the necessary pro-ecological reforms should be carried out as soon as possible in various industries, including the effective implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development conducted in accordance with the green economy philosophy, including, among others, financing from green finance sources with participation of public and commercial sectors of the economy.
7. The state should maximize the scale of roecological state interventionism, among others by increasing financial expenditure from the state budget for the implementation of ecological reforms, implementing ecological innovations and other activities of sustainable pro-ecological economic development as part of pro-ecological state interventionism.
Below I have described the key determinants confirming the formulated research thesis. To the above discussion I would like to add the following conclusion formulated as a summary of my previous considerations on this topic: determinants of barriers, opportunities and needs related to the implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological economic development conducted in accordance with the green economy philosophy.
Given the progressive process of environmental pollution, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the progressing process of global warming and the scale of climate disasters caused by climate change, this is the key question now: Is the economic growth of developing countries more important than environmental protection?
This question is crucial because it relates to the most important challenge of humanity in the 21st century, i.e. the urgent and necessary implementation of economic sustainable development principles in accordance with the green economy philosophy, including the urgent implementation of environmental reforms in the energy and other sectors of the economy financed, among others . from green finance sources.
In my opinion, in the 21st century, the greatest challenge of humanity will be solving problems that are a consequence of adverse climate change, rising average annual temperature at the Earth's surface, i.e. the progressing global warming process related to the growing greenhouse gas emissions. More and more climatology data indicate that the global warming process is accelerating. The result of this process will be more and more frequent drought, melting glaciers, raising the surface of the oceans and seas, reducing the areas of arable lands and fields suitable for human life. In addition, weather anomalies and climatic and natural disasters will appear more often in many places around the world. Forest fires will occur more and more often. Lack of clean water and fresh water will appear in many areas. In the next several to several dozen years, all pollinating insects may die, which will be the result of growing environmental pollution and the use of pesticides in arable fields. The result can be a significant decrease in the production of agricultural produce, including fruit, cereals and some vegetables. This can aggravate the problem of feeding the population. Therefore, humanity should reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, develop energy based on renewable energy sources, electromobility, organic farming, sorting garbage, recycling, etc. It is necessary to implement the principles of sustainable ecological development as soon as possible in accordance with the green economy philosophy and ecological financing reforms from green finance sources. Time is short. It is not certain that humanity will completely reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. It is also not certain that if humanity succeeds, the global warming process will cease to deepen. However, implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development is a necessity and the biggest challenge in the 21st century.
Therefore, high economic growth should no longer be a priority, but just the implementation of sustainable development principles in line with the green economy philosophy and financing of green reforms from green finance sources. Individual countries should cooperate with each other and make key decisions globally, according to which they would recognize that high economic growth should no longer be a priority, but rather the implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development. Some developing countries still consider high economic growth as a priority, but high-growth usually generates the most garbage, the highest pollution is caused by industrial waste emissions and the highest greenhouse gas emissions. Of course, the scale of this problem is correlated with the level of greening the economy, e.g. how much of the power industry produces electricity in a given country based on renewable energy sources. There are large differences on this scale between individual developed and developing countries. However, global warming is a global problem, so international cooperation is needed to change priorities. Now in all countries of the world it should be recognized as the most important urgent implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development in accordance with the green economy philosophy, even if it is associated with a slowdown in economic growth. Unfortunately, there is less and less time to change these priorities.
In connection with the above, one of the most important challenges for humanity in the 21st century is the protection of the Earth's biosphere and natural biodiversity. One of the natural ecosystems characterized by high biodiversity are tropical subtropical rainforests. The area of ??these forests decreases year by year. In this way, the planet Earth will be poorer in terms of biodiversity, including many unique species of flora and fauna that live in these forest formations, e.g. in the Amazon rainforest, i.e. the largest natural forest complex. Every year many unique species of flora and fauna are irretrievably lost, including species not yet discovered, not known, not described. I believe that there are still many species of flora and fauna that have not been discovered and described by man, and unfortunately, due to the growing level of human interference in the natural environments of biological ecosystems, many of these species may never be discovered. It is estimated that many species of flora and fauna found in the Amazon rainforest, in this unique, natural forest, characterized by high biodiversity, have not yet been completely discovered. In addition, there are many species of flora and fauna found in the Amazon rainforest that have been found, discovered but have not yet been thoroughly explored and described, have not been named. Much of the undiscovered species of flora and fauna found in the Amazon rainforests may never be discovered because the Amazon rainforest is being cut down so quickly and its area is rapidly decreasing. Unfortunately, due to the type of soil and the specific microclimate created by the tropical forest, it is not possible to recreate a fully cut tropical forest without the use of huge inputs. Because the cut down forest is often not reconstructed, the soil becomes barren and the area of ??the former forest is steppe.
In recent years, the number of cases of weather anomalies and climate disasters caused by climate change related to the increasingly faster global warming process is growing rapidly. The increasingly faster global warming process is the result of an increase in greenhouse gas emissions emitted by industry and the energy sector producing electricity and heat based on the burning of minerals. In addition, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions is due to the development of the automotive industry also powered by burning minerals. Greenhouse gases are also emitted by agriculture, mainly livestock production carried out using traditional production technologies without complying with the principles of organic farming. In addition, the burning of rubbish, including plastics, causes greenhouse gases and toxic to humans and other forms of life chemical compounds to be released into the atmosphere. Due to the warming climate of the Earth, the consumption of electricity is growing, because the houses are installed ever larger refrigerators, refrigerators, air conditioners and more electronic devices enabling access to the Internet. The increase in demand for electricity causes a rapid increase in generation capacity in traditional power plants generating this energy based on traditional energy, consisting in burning increasingly larger amounts of hard coal, lignite, mazout from crude oil and other minerals.
Due to the above, a very negative effect of the progressing global warming process are more and more frequent weather anomalies and climatic disasters, above all the more frequent drought causing forest fires. Increasingly larger forest fire areas cause degradation of natural environments. For example, currently (August 2019) there have been Siberian Tundra forest fires at the Arctic Circle, fires of large areas of the Amazon rainforest, forest fires in many places in Europe and in many other places of other continents. This is another very negative effect of the more and more frequent drought and other weather anomalies being a derivative of the progressing global warming process. Droughts and fires very quickly cause impoverishment of biodiversity, soil sterility, degradation of natural environments, decline in the number of living organisms, extinction of many species of flora and fauna and other negative processes.
These fires, especially the Amazon rainforest fires in Brazil are very negative for the Earth's ecosystem due to climate change. The Amazon rainforests produce up to 20 percent of the Earth's atmosphere. oxygen. During current fires (end of August 2019), part of the Amazon rainforest with an area of ??1.5 football field burns every minute. the government in Brazil has announced that it does not have the resources to counteract this problem. It does not have enough firefighters and firefighting equipment to even try to put out the fire. This is a problem not only for Brazil but for the whole world. This is a global problem. The problem of the burning enormous rainforests of the Amazon rainforest should be the subject of urgent convening of a special UN conference as soon as possible, including the participation of many other international ecological organizations, governments of many countries, internationally operating financial institutions and industrial corporations capable of providing assistance and organizing measures and necessary actions to put out the fire as soon as possible. The Amazon rainforest fire is already a serious SOS signal for the Earth, for humanity, for the lives of many species of flora and fauna that the critical point caused by the global warming process has apparently been exceeded.
Therefore, quick actions are necessary to extinguish this fire and implementation in Brazil and other countries of the programs of system implementation of sustainable ecological development in accordance with the green economy philosophy. It is not easy in the situation of a developing country, a country that is just developing its industry and technology in order to achieve a level of economic development similar to the level of income, equipment with technologies etc. in highly developed countries. Therefore, systematic international assistance is needed for Brazil and other developing countries, which lack funds for implementing ecological innovations and implementing ecological reforms, among others in the field of development of renewable energy sources and limiting the plundering economy of logging from the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon rainforest fires are a serious SOS signal sent by nature towards humanity. There is less and less time for the implementation of the necessary pro-ecological activities. These are no longer paraphylosophical deliberations as was thought in public opinion at the end of the 20th century. The progressing global warming process is a fact. It is also a fact that it is primarily humans that are responsible for these climate changes that are adverse to life on Earth.
Climatologists estimate that the necessary ecological reforms in global terms should be carried out by 2030 at the latest for effective slowing down of the global warming process. If this plan is not implemented, then by the end of the 21st century the average temperature at the Earth's surface will increase by another min. 3-4 degrees, which will result in an increase in climate disasters. However, there are still a few, max. several years to implement environmentally friendly reforms globally, implement sustainable economic development in economic processes carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy. Therefore, the current question is: Will humanity use this remaining time to implement this plan. It is the biggest global civilization challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Regardless of whether man manages to stop the global warming process in the 21st century or not, humanity should maximize expenditure on the protection of the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, reclamation of a degraded environment, development of renewable energy sources and other key ecological activities and reforms.
In accordance with the above, in my opinion, the necessary ecological reforms should be carried out as soon as possible in various industries, including the effective implementation of the principles of sustainable ecological development carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy, including, among others, financing from green finance sources with the participation of public and commercial sectors of the economy.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In view of the above, I am asking you the following questions:
- Will man manage to stop the global warming process in the 21st century, isn't it humanity that should maximize investment in protecting the Earth's biosphere, including biodiversity, reclamation of a degraded environment, development of renewable energy sources and other key ecological activities and reforms?
- Why we have not noticed and emphasized the negative effects of the crisis of extinction of many species of flora and fauna, and the growing problems related to the growing pollution of the environment, the increase of greenhouse gas emissions, the faster global warming process and the processes of climate disasters caused by these processes that are intensifying problems related to global climate change?
- What actions should maximize the state in the area of ??pro-ecological state intervention in order to carry out the necessary pro-ecological reforms in various industries as soon as possible, including effective implementation of the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development carried out in accordance with the green economy philosophy, including, among others, financing from green finance sources with participation of sectors public and commercial economy?
- In view of the above, what are the key determinants of pro-ecological state interventionism and how should governments of individual countries efficiently and quickly implement ecological reforms, implement ecological innovations as part of pro-ecological state interventionism?
- What should be the scale of financial expenditure from the state budget for the implementation of ecological reforms, implementation of ecological innovations and other activities of sustainable pro-ecological economic development as part of pro-ecological state interventionism?
- What do you think about this topic?
- What is your opinion on this topic?
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I invite you to discussion
thank you very much
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
Good discussion but what are key measurables for economic and social co-benefits of a green transformation
Transition to cleaner energy...Reimagining energy infrastructures for the 21st century increasingly means choosing between competing economic futures, a dilemma that is now provoking conflicts across many places and realms. In the United States, one critical clash is unfolding among tech sector advocates for a clean energy transition, as U.S. cleantech has worked to regroup from Silicon Valley’s failed clean energy manufacturing push of the late 2000s and to navigate an ongoing solar trade war with China: about what that transition might look like, how it might be achieved, and, critically, what economic sectors and rents might emerge from it. One set of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists argues that “breakthrough” clean energy technologies are needed to produce an energy transition and to bolster U.S. economic power into the 21st century... Knuth, S. (2018). “Breakthroughs” for a green economy? Financialization and clean energy transition. Energy research & social science, 41, 220-229.
... taking up questions of value can help political ecologists and economists develop a more powerful analysis of the green economy, as it introduces new urban, industrial, and technological dimensions into a self-identified green capitalism... Knuth, S. (2017). Green devaluation: Disruption, divestment, and decommodification for a green economy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 28(1), 98-117.
Adhering to SSPs... an alternative futures of societal development known as the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs)... The conceptual framework for the design and use of the SSPs calls for the development of global pathways describing the future evolution of key aspects of society that would together imply a range of challenges for mitigating and adapting to climate change... O’Neill, B. C., Kriegler, E., Ebi, K. L., Kemp-Benedict, E., Riahi, K., Rothman, D. S., ... & Levy, M. (2017). The roads ahead: Narratives for shared socioeconomic pathways describing world futures in the 21st century. Global Environmental Change, 42, 169-180.
Dear Juan Diego Lopez Giraldo
,Such implementation of the principles of sustainable development should primarily take into account human needs. I agree that an interesting issue is the improvement of the processes of implementing the principles of sustainable development into economic processes, taking into account and / or using the technology of the current fourth technological revolution known as Industry 4.0.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear Suresh K Malhotra,
Precise estimation of benefits in economic terms from the process of implementing the principles of sustainable development, social environmental (ecological) responsibility, pro-ecological reforms of implementing eco-innovations in economic processes, etc. are difficult to measure for short periods. This makes the process of pro-ecological transformation of the traditional brown economy into a sustainable green economy / circular economy in the short term difficult to estimate. On the other hand, in the long term, positive aspects appear in the form of a decrease in the level of environmental pollution, a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, and over several decades, positive and most expected effects may appear in the form of a slowdown or, perhaps, an inhibition of the progressing global warming process, and thus land protection. biosphere by the potential climatic Armageddon, which may appear at the beginning of the 22nd century, if the aforementioned pro-ecological transformation of the traditional brown economy into a sustainable green economy / circular economy is not carried out efficiently and quickly in the next decade.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear D A Gayan Nayanajith,
Thank you very much for interesting considerations and inspiring information on the issues of climate change and the need to carry out the pro-ecological transformation of the traditional brown economy into a sustainable green economy / circular economy. Thank you very much for the interesting information and references to literature sources on the subject. Thank you very much for confirming my theses. Thank you very much for participating in the discussion. I am glad that we look at this issue in a similar way. All the best!
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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