{"id":9721,"date":"2013-09-18T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2013-09-18T02:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T06:09:24","slug":"how-economic-growth-can-prevent-the-next-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-economic-growth-can-prevent-the-next-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"How Economic Growth Can Prevent The Next Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091813_0605_HowEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In its Special Report this week The Economist argues that economic growth can be the saviour that prevents animal species on our planet from going extinct:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic growth is generally thought to harm the environment, but, in fact, it is poverty that is bad for the environment.<\/li>\n<li>North Korea, for example, is poor, and its forests have rapidly been shrinking. South Korea, on the other hand, is rich and its forest levels are stable.<\/li>\n<li>When people become richer they generally focus on things such as cleaning up water supplies and improving environments which helps animals as well as humans.<\/li>\n<li>Richer countries usually have more intensive farming which means more land can be turned into forest or wilderness.<\/li>\n<li>Conservation requires effective government, and this normally requires a certain level of national wealth.<\/li>\n<li>Richer countries are more peaceful and for the most part (though not always) peace creates a safer environment for animals since it means that habitats aren&#8217;t being destroyed.<\/li>\n<li>In richer countries women are more educated and have fewer children \u2013 which ultimately creates more space for animals to live in harmony.<\/li>\n<li>Growth brings scientific advancement which makes conservation efforts easier. Microsoft Research for example has developed systems that have aided conservationists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read the full report over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/special-report\/21585091-biodiversity-once-preoccupation-scientists-and-greens-has-become-mainstream\">here<\/a>, and the article that presents the main thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/special-report\/21585100-contrary-popular-belief-economic-growth-may-be-good-biodiversity-long-view\">here<\/a>. The report is much longer, contains more information, and is an important read for anybody interested in ensuring the future of biodiversity on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/special-report\/21585100-contrary-popular-belief-economic-growth-may-be-good-biodiversity-long-view\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its Special Report this week The Economist argues that economic growth can be the saviour that prevents animal species on our planet from going extinct: Economic growth is generally thought to harm the environment, but, in fact, it is poverty that is bad for the environment. North Korea, for example, is poor, and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/091813_0605_HowEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9724,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions\/9724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}