Unsustainability of Reversing Environmental Damage via Affluence-Creating Mechanisms
The economic processes that generated wealth, such as the adoption of resource-intensive technologies, are the same ones that caused environmental harm. Therefore, these mechanisms cannot be relied upon to reverse the degradation, implying that new and different strategies are necessary for environmental restoration.
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