The industrial ecology-inspired puzzle I have chosen is: even though they know the importance of environmental issues, why developing countries still choose to develop economy first and then to solve environmental problems?
firstly, in my opinion，it's the influence of those developed countries. during the development of those developed countries, almost all of them chose to develop their industrial level first. as a consequnse of emitting large amount of waste, there were lots of pollution affairs during their development, such as London smog incidents.these examples of developed countries make those developing countries believe that the environmental issuses can be solved after their economy increased.
secondly,the development of economy is conducive of protecting environment.development is the constant theme of mankind. and environmental protection is an issue of this stage.however development can not wait, we see the problem and then solve it.beacause of the lack of ability, a certain degree of damage to the environment is inevitable, during the early period of rapid development.in the past,people in China could not produce electicity without smokestakes. but now, we can build hydropower stations and nuclear power plants.
without the development of economy, environmental protection is just like Palliatives. in China, we insist scientific outlook on development.and the development is the core part of it.
thirdly,the Kuznets Curve. the curve can also be used in the relationship between
the GDP and pollution degree of environment.that is to say, before the economy develop to a certain degree，the environmental degradation is normal.Only after the economy has developed to a certain degree, the environmental issues could be easily solved.
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ReplyDeleteI really think this topic is very important, great choice.
However, Do you know whether societies with increasing GDP - after a certain point - are actually managing to decrease impacts again? because thinking of the rebound effect even with energy, resource.. saving devices peopl etend to sconsume more and more. Is tehcnology a solution? Do big damns and nuclear plants really help or do they only shoft the problems?
Cool correlation, never thought about that before!
ReplyDeleteI think I understand what your question is aiming at, but I have to say I have trouble putting words on the precize correlation. Is it available information on sustainability problems - decisions on development priorities? Or something else? I think it is helpful to make this more explicit, both for me as a reader and for you as a writer as well, since then, you will be able to link your explanations more clearly to the correlation. As a reader, I like to be lazy, so it would be nice if I can read exactly what you mean. Now, I have the feeling I have to guess to quite a big extent what you exactly mean, and this makes it hard for a less motivated reader to keep reading! And... explicit framing of your question and statements would also facilitate the discussion that other scientists would like to start with you after reading your article.