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THE WIDENING GAP BETWEEN CURRENT AND SUSTAINABLE PATTERNS

The world has enjoyed phenomenal economic growth over the past fifty years. So how can the gap between where we are and where we need to be have widened?

False signs of improvement

On four indicative sustainable development issues -- material efficiency, climate change, forest health, and social equity -- it is clear the private sector has driven considerable improvement. On each of these issues, however, it is also clear that conditions continue to deteriorate.

The economies of the industrialized countries have made great strides over the past few decades in material efficiency. For example, the United States, Japan, and Germany have all reduced their material intensity as a measure of GDP by approximately twenty to thirty percent over the past 20 years, according to a WRI co-sponsored report, Resource Flows. The dawning of the Information Age has contributed to these gains, as computers are used to replace......

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