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Date: 2024-07-17 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00021353
THE SOCIO-ENVIRO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM
THE MACRO TRENDS ARE CATASTROPHIC
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A series of images that describe the way the 3 segments of the system have changed over time
Huge amounts of Natural Capital have been converted to create Financial Capital in the last 200 years!
Planetary boundaries are being exceeded, with only modest efforts to remediate Natural Capital
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ACCOUNTING FOR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND NATURAL CAPITALS
COLOR CODE DISTANT PAST PRESENT NOT GOOD FUTURE COLLAPSE
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These are the aggregated Socio-Enviro-Economic Trends
What has been happening and what needs to happen to have a better future
THE WHOLE SYSTEM THE ACTUAL PAST A NO CHANGE FUTURE A BETTER FUTURE
More and more DEPLETION and DEGRADATION
of NATURAL CAPITAL is UNSUSTAINABLE
  • ECONOMIC CAPITAL has increase substantially over decades because there have been productivity increases.
  • At the same time there has been a massive increase in inequality that has compromised SOCIAL CAPITAL.
  • There has been dangerous degradation of NATURAL CAPITAL. There is an almost universal scientific consensus that massive changes are essential.
What science shows is that nature is the foundation for everything. Most of the time there is a complex natural balance or equilibrium, but periodically it gets out of balance and many changes take place very rapidly until another equilibrium is found.
Because of humankind's economic activity we have arrived at a tipping point and the equilibrium has been disturbed. It is impossible to predict what future the changes will be .,.. but we do know that there will be massive change and it is unlikly that humankind will have the capacity to do very much about it.
BE WARNED! GDP growth will aggravate this crisis, not solve it, but smart policy and technological investment and deployment might mitigate the problem significantly. Inaction is criminal.
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