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https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/

UN Report: Nature's Dangerous Decline 'Unprecedented'; Species Extinction Rates 'Accelerating' Current global response insufficient; 'Transformative changes' needed to restore and protect nature; Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good Most comprehensive assessment of its kind; 1,000,000 species threatened with extinction PARIS, 6 May - Nature is declining globally at...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/08/britain-passes-1-week-without-coal-power-for-first-time-since-1882

Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882 Landmark follows government pledge to phase out coal-fired electricity by 2025

Beyond GDP

Beyond GDP - Joseph Stiglitz on the need for a wider view • Social Europe What we measure affects what we do. If we focus only on material wellbeing – on, say, the production of goods, rather than on health, education, and the environment – we become distorted in the same way that these measures are distorted; we become more materialistic.

GDP is not a good measure of wellbeing – it's too materialistic

GDP is not a good measure of wellbeing – it's too materialistic | Joseph Stiglitz Why focus on production of goods, rather than on health, education and environment?