Author: J. Michael Dennis
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Pauvreté et environnement ?
Sur l’effet de serre, la pauvreté et l’environnement, on affirme tout et n’importe quoi. La relation entre réchauffement de la terre et émissions de gaz est beaucoup plus complexe qu’on ne le prétend. De larges zones d’ombres demeurent. Là où l’on croit voir de simples dépendances, il y a des dépendances complexes et mutuelles. Il…
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La protection de l’environnement, la pauvreté: un faux débat!
La démographie humaine est l’une des causes principales des problèmes écologiques et il est temps de regarder la réalité en face. L’augmentation de la population mondiale est importante. Il aura fallu attendre 1850 pour atteindre 1 milliards d’habitants sur terre. En 1930, en moins de 80 ans, la population mondiale passait de 1 à 2…
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Is Modern Capitalism outdated? (Part Two)
IS 20th-century capitalism failing 21st-century society? A call for a more responsible capitalism, members of the global elite debated that unusual question last Wednesday January 25 at the annual World Economic Forum. There is a great difference, however, between being willing to talk about an issue and being ready to act. It is a difference…
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Comment le monde économique basculera d’ici 2050
L’économie mondiale est en train de connaître un véritable séisme. Un profond bouleversement de notre économie globale devrait prendre place d’ici 2050, à savoir, Chine et Inde en tête, une irrésistible montée en puissance des grands pays émergents. D’ici 2020, les sept principaux pays émergents, soit la Chine, la Russie, l’Inde, le Brésil, le Mexique,…
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How extreme weather will transform our cities?
Global warming is now significantly, around the world, globally increasing the number of people at risk. According to climate change experts, cities from New York in the U.S. to Dhaka in Bangladesh are likely to be heavily affected. Temperature rises from climate change will be significantly exaggerated in urban areas and their inhabitants will have…
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Is Modern Capitalism outdated?
Is 20th century capitalism failing 21st century society? With the world still shaking from the global economic earthquake, and suffering daily aftershocks, it is not surprising to find more and more people asking themselves whether capitalism is dead. Today we are back to the inequality of 1929 and the Great Depression. High unemployment and the…
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Will earth population expire by 2050?
Our planet is running out of resources. The human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life. More than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by humans over the past three decades. Either consumption rates are dramatically and rapidly lowered or the planet will no…
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