Sustainability refers to practices that can be maintained indefinitely without depleting resources or causing severe environmental damage. The document discusses how societies have moved away from more sustainable practices of the past through higher consumption, easy credit, and short-term thinking. It argues that to become sustainable again, societies must reduce waste and excess by using only what is needed, recycling, and shifting to a maintenance mindset rather than constant consumption. A sustainable society is possible and has been achieved before through balancing human activities with environmental protection. Strong leadership, communication, and collective action are needed to manage the transition.
Sitra’s Megatrends 2020 list provides an overview of the issues we should focus on in the coming years.
In Sitra’s Megatrends 2020 update, we highlight five trends and the links and tensions between them:
1) Ecological reconstruction is a matter of urgency
2) Relational power is strengthening
3) The population is ageing and becoming increasingly diverse
4) The economy is seeking direction
5) Technology is becoming embedded in everything
Sitra’s Megatrends 2020 list provides an overview of the issues we should focus on in the coming years.
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1) Ecological reconstruction is a matter of urgency
2) Relational power is strengthening
3) The population is ageing and becoming increasingly diverse
4) The economy is seeking direction
5) Technology is becoming embedded in everything
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This work also presents ideas to stop contributing to the actual climate crisis.
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This work also presents ideas to stop contributing to the actual climate crisis.
***The material presented exposes the original ideas of the author***
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https://crimsonpublishers.com/mcda/fulltext/MCDA.000514.php
For more open access journals in Crimson Publishers please click on link: https://crimsonpublishers.com/
For more articles on open access journals of Agronomy please click on below link: https://crimsonpublishers.com/mcda/
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C H A P T E R 1Economics The Study ofChoiceSTART UP E.docxjasoninnes20
C H A P T E R 1
Economics: The Study of
Choice
START UP: ECONOMICS IN THE NEWS
2008 seemed to be the year of economic news. From the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression to the
possibility of a global recession, to gyrating gasoline and food prices, and to plunging housing prices, economic
questions were the primary factors in the presidential campaign of 2008 and dominated the news generally.
What causes the prices of some good to rise while the prices of some other goods fall? Price determination is
one of the things that we will study in this book. We will also consider factors that lead an economy to fall into a re-
cession—and the attempts to limit it.
While the investigation of these problems surely falls within the province of economics, economics encom-
passes a far broader range of issues. Ultimately, economics is the study of choice. Because choices range over every
imaginable aspect of human experience, so does economics. Economists have investigated the nature of family life,
the arts, education, crime, sports, job creation—the list is virtually endless because so much of our lives involves
making choices.
How do individuals make choices: Would you like better grades? More time to relax? More time watching
movies? Getting better grades probably requires more time studying, and perhaps less relaxation and entertain-
ment. Not only must we make choices as individuals, we must make choices as a society. Do we want a cleaner en-
vironment? Faster economic growth? Both may be desirable, but efforts to clean up the environment may conflict
with faster economic growth. Society must make choices.
Economics is defined less by the subjects economists investigate than by the way in which economists invest-
igate them. Economists have a way of looking at the world that differs from the way scholars in other disciplines
look at the world. It is the economic way of thinking; this chapter introduces that way of thinking.
economics
A social science that
examines how people
choose among the
alternatives available to them.
scarcity
The condition of having to
choose among alternatives.
scarce good
A good for which the choice
of one alternative requires
that another be given up.
free good
A good for which the choice
of one use does not require
that another be given up.
1. DEFINING ECONOMICS
L E A R N I N G O B J E C T I V E S
1. Define economics.
2. Explain the concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost and how they relate to the definition of
economics.
3. Understand the three fundamental economic questions: What should be produced? How
should goods and services be produced? For whom should goods and services be produced?
Economics is a social science that examines how people choose among the alternatives available to
them. It is social because it involves people and their behavior. It is a science because it uses, as much as
possible, a scientific approach in its investigation of choices.
1.1 Scarcit ...
Stirring It UpHow to Make Money and Save the World.docxsusanschei
Stirring It Up
How to Make Money and Save the World
Gary Hirshberg
For Meg, whose partnership and love
make the impossible possible, and for
Alex, Ethan, and Danielle,
who give me hope and purpose.
Contents
A Note on the Production of This Book
Foreword
1 Natural Profits
2 Mission Control
3 From Co2 Toward CoNO
4 Hands Across the Aisle
5 The Delicious Revolution
6 No Such Place as Away
7 Nurturing Those Who Nurture the Earth
8 Future Perfect
Afterword
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Copyright
A Note on the Production
of This Book
Through a partnership with NativeEnergy, a privately held energy company
(www.nativeenergy.com), the estimated global warming gas emissions
resulting from the production of this book are being offset by an investment
in a manure digester at the Warner Family Dairy Farm in Narvon,
Pennsylvania. Over its operating life, the digester will capture and use the
methane—a powerful global warming gas—given off by the manure the
farm’s cows produce to instead produce electricity and heat energy. For more
information on how the emissions were calculated, the offset project, or how
you can offset your emissions, visit www.stonyfield.com/stirringitup.
Hyperion saved the following resources by printing
Stirring It Up on New Leaf Pioneer 100 for the text
and Neenah Environment 100 for the jacket.
Both papers are made with 100% post-consumer
waste fiber versus virgin fiber.
TREES:
67 fully grown
WATER
28,769 gallons
ENERGY:
49 million Btu
SOLID WASTE:
3,209 pounds
GREENHOUSE GASES:
6,322 pounds
Foreword
While sweating through my workout at a local gym recently, something
caught my eye. There, outside in the parking lot, stood a varied collection of
compact cars. It struck me that just a year ago, I’d glanced out the same
window at rows crammed with big SUVs. Ours is a middle-income New
Hampshire community, and I had wondered then how the owners of those
rolling Parthenons of Excess were coping with rising fuel costs. Now, on this
particular morning, I saw only one lonely SUV sticking out like a white
elephant among the herd of VW Jettas, Toyota Corollas, and at least five or
six hybrid Priuses.
What had brought about this heartening turn to green? I wondered. Had
all of my neighbors been won over after hearing Al Gore lay out the
frightening facts of climate change in his film An Inconvenient Truth? Had
our local churches persuaded their parishioners that saving the planet was
covered under the divine directives written on Moses’s stone tablets? Or,
perhaps, had a wave of guilt, morality, or newfound virtue washed over my
fellow townsfolk?
In truth, the explanation is far less dramatic—and one you may already
have guessed since it is affecting every city, town, and village in America.
This seemingly sudden turnabout has less to do with a moral awakening than
with a spike in gasoline prices.
My hunch about the prime reason my neighbors had changed their c.
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Implicitly or explicitly all competing businesses employ a strategy to select a mix
of marketing resources. Formulating such competitive strategies fundamentally
involves recognizing relationships between elements of the marketing mix (e.g.,
price and product quality), as well as assessing competitive and market conditions
(i.e., industry structure in the language of economics).
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