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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457607703321

Autore

Mohr Jürgen

Titolo

From an affluent society to a happy society [[electronic resource] ] : vital signs promising a change and the impacts on industries / / Jürgen Mohr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, : Diplomica Verlag, 2011

ISBN

3-8428-0578-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (95 p.)

Disciplina

257

Soggetti

Social change

Social prediction

Social change - Economic aspects

Industries - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

From an Affluent Society to a Happy Society Vital Signs Promising a Change and the Impacts on Industries

Sommario/riassunto

HauptbeschreibungFacts and figures indicate a continuously increasing societal welfare. But what about its impacts on the environment? The growing wealth has been accompanied by environmental degradation, deforestation, losses in bio-diversity, global warming, air pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, and overfishing. Recent measurements have been performed related to the depletion of natural resources showing that humans currently use the resources of 1.25 Earths. At the current consumption levels of high-income countries, the world could only sustainably support 1.75 billion pe