{"id":82329,"date":"2018-09-05T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/can-sustainable-development-co-exist-with-current-economic-growth"},"modified":"2018-09-05T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:42:24","slug":"can-sustainable-development-co-exist-with-current-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/can-sustainable-development-co-exist-with-current-economic-growth","title":{"rendered":"Can sustainable development co-exist with current economic growth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-sustainable-development-co-exist-with-current-economic-growth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research confronts the elephant in the room\u2014the \u2018trilemma\u2019 of population growth, economic growth and environmental sustainability\u2014and reveals the vast incompatibility of current models of economic development with environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Using data collected from across the globe, national economies and natural resource use were closely examined by an international team of scientists using a mathematical model.<\/p>\n<p>The results suggest that as long as our economic system retains its current structure, and if <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/population+growth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">population growth<\/a> continues, both high- and low-income countries will fail to achieve environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-sustainable-co-exist-current-economic-growth.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-sustainable-co-exist-curre...rowth.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research confronts the elephant in the room\u2014the \u2018trilemma\u2019 of population growth, economic growth and environmental sustainability\u2014and reveals the vast incompatibility of current models of economic development with environmental sustainability. Using data collected from across the globe, national economies and natural resource use were closely examined by an international team of scientists using a mathematical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2229,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mathematics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}