| However, the latter growth curve only delinks from the former in a post-industrial economy after having reached a high level of unsustainability. |
|
| Anderson now spreads the word on the unsustainability of infinite growth in a finite world. |
|
| But the markets are often sending useful signals about the unsustainability of economic policies. |
|
| This is particularly important in view of the growing risks of financial unsustainability resulting from unfavourable demographic developments. |
|
| In that case, what is at stake is rather the contribution of each country to global sustainability or unsustainability. |
|
| Thirdly, in terms of the actors: reversing unsustainability stopped being an obligation of nations, of states alone. |
|
| Admittedly, some results were achieved, but these are by no means sufficient to reverse the signs of unsustainability afflicting the planet. |
|
| Disasters are thus a manifestation of unsustainability. |
|
| They are worried about pollution, the disappearance of wild species, the destruction of biodiversity, and the unsustainability of our consumption patterns. |
|
| To address the question of environmental unsustainability, we need both a critique of our current unsustainable ways of life and a vision of more sustainable societies. |
|
| The EU's export-driven growth and production model leads to nonequitable and environmental, social and economic unsustainability which threatens to destroy our ecosystems. |
|
| In practice, ambitions will remain much lower, i.e. just providing numbers identifying a risk of unsustainability under the continuation of current trends or behaviours. |
|
| The ongoing crisis has highlighted the extent to which our economies are integrated, the indivisibility of our collective well-being and the unsustainability of a narrow focus on short-term gains. |
|
| One can see in these two equations the importance of clearly defining the Y value, which corresponds to the sustainability objective, and W, which corresponds to a state of unsustainability. |
|
| Second, ecosystems in future will be less able than in the past to deliver the goods and services human life depends upon, which points to unsustainability. |
|
| Unless we address the fundamental causes of unsustainability on our planet, the lofty of goals of governments to reduce extinction rates will count for nothing. |
|
| From this second point of view, what matters is not each country's own sustainability, but each country's contribution to global unsustainability. |
|
| Until this changes, the engineering culture has the potential to drive the energy sector further into economic as well as environmental unsustainability. |
|
| By doing so, they acknowledge that EFs are not intended as measures of a country's own sustainability, but more of its contribution to global unsustainability. |
|
| The chief economist at the BIS in the runup to the crisis was Bill White, who issued many a perceptive warning about the unsustainability of asset-price inflation at the time. |
|
