How do we create a sustainable, advanced economy for the future?
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I don't know if you can convince someone... it takes longer (and more money) to do something the right way... more money equals higher taxes... it seems like most people don't care about the "right way" to do things.. only the cheap way...\n\nI just hope the earth is more resilient than we think...
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to develop an economy you need cheap energy.  Current cheap energy sources come in three types.  Fossil fuels (coal,gas,oil), Hydro dynamics (Dams)and Nuclear power (made cheap by government subsidies).  All require the alteration of the local environment and with the exception of Dams polite the atmosphere.  Dams however consume more of the natural environment.  A up-side to economic development is the generation of wealth which can be used to enhance the environment.  Though this option probably sends shivers down corporate bodies.
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Barring a nuclear winter or other catastrophic event, we'll still be around, polluting, smoking, and drinking.  Humans are pretty hardy creatures, and have lived through plagues, Ice Ages, etc.  While we are using our resources at an exponential rate, I do think this will necessitate some of the newer technologies already in the works.  We'll use fossil fuels until we can't any more, but there's always other forms of energy.  Right now, its too expense to implement mass change across the globe, but soon we won't have a choice, and I can't fathom that we as people (who have been around for hundreds of thousands of years) would suddenly fail to adapt.  That's what we were meant to do- to populate this planet.  \n\nSo no, unless a catastrophe of unheard-of magnitude strikes us, we'll still be around.  People for centuries have said the end times are upon us.  I'm still waiting....
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Hi!\nAmerica world's biggest economy today would continue to be big for many years. However, what may be particularly interesting that it may not remain there forever.\nLets look at the BRICs report, published by Goldman Sachs... http://www.gs.com/insight/research/reports/99.pdf\nI guess that kind of gives you an insight of the economies of the future; wherein China and India look promising. China, as a matter of fact is said to displace US in less than 50 years. \nA Giant like the US cannot become a part of a fleet of mice... So the way I look at it; US would continue to be a (mark the difference, "a" and not "the") dominating economy; but would have some good company of friends coming in from Asia!\nHope it makes sense to ya! :)\n\nEurope and Japan don't look very promising in long term... Their populations are aging fast which isn't a great sign for the next many decades.
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1. eliminate corruption and dictatorship;\n\n2. expand and support the native system of concentrating wealth for starting small businesses;\n\n3. move away from agriculture that competes with the agribusinesses in Europe and North America and toward the special, exotic fruits and vegetables that can be sold at a premium in the developed countries, adding an effort to "brand" the items. If Chile can bring fruit and vegetables to the US markets in good condition, Africa should be able to as well.\n\n4. try to get the African countries to develop regional and continent-wide tourism marketing, and remove the impediments to tourism, such as unstable governments and rebellion.
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Do what you say, say what you think. \nIntegrity is the one most single quality to a sustainable business.
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economic growth and prospect is the best way to improve their life style and life utilities\n\nThere are two ways to growth\n\n1- in the short term. Gov can increase GDP by increase consumption, investment, gov spending or net export\n\n2- For a long term, anything increases in quality or quantities of factors of production will make an economic growth...
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we already have...\n\nits called nanotechnology...they ahvei nfused carbon nanotubes onto silicon substrates and used DNA and its complex functionality to solve problems..this has been done to a limited scope...but it is very well established that larger scale systems will be availabe in 20 years...to the functionality you describe...the first intelligent machine is expected to appear around 2025-2030.\n\nThis will take time and engineering...(these are projections based on current average rate of economic growth and research)...research is based on curretn glboal computing power, research education and lab power...which is at its most powerful form ever---but that is ONLY---if the economy doesn't, colapse for example...\n\nhowever, another alternative, taht is faster--there is a faster way to do it than yours...\n\nwe an simply get rat brain cells...and organize them on substrates so that they resemble the human brain...we make a brain out of rat cells and then we just teach it like a new born..this can be done...\n\nor we could get brains of people and just turn them into subconcious zombies and take them out of the bodie...by which we then plug them into an itnerface and we can make them do computations...\n\nhowever, that would be amoral...so we cannot do this...you will ahve to wait 25 years from now for nanotechnology and computer chips to be integrated with carbon nanotubes/DNA to see that type of functionality.\n\nI beleive at such times...we would have perfected the machine-human interfaces and will become "part" of these intelligent machines..through neural implants--.... we will be the same identity...say your computer jsut becoems you but with greater intelligence and functionality--\n\nwe can also develope identities that are INDEPENDENT of humans that can think for themselves...but for them to have a "termintator" mentality they would have to differentiate between "human" and machine...and since intelligence is just intelligence...I don't think there will be such mentality...\n\nits as if you one day woke up one day and learned your a robot...you would not want to nuke the entire human race right?\nin fact, you would identify with humans...you wouldn't care if you were a robot...just don't tell anybody.\n\nbut even if you did want to nuke all humans, that would imply you had more resources than humans, able to get their civilization from undertheir feet right?\n\nbutas I said, insuch a society, humans would plug into "machines" which were their slave.s..and gave them mroe intelligence...but the machines themselves were not "concious" themselves...\n\nso the humans...knowing how to be "cyberntically" avid...just as regular concious machines...\n\nthe machines would "loose" their edge..\nin other words...the intelligent machines would not be "smarter" than the 2025 human because that human would have also become smarter with machiens that are tied to their brain...and whih they controla nd know how to operate just as well as an intellgienct computer...\n\nthus, placing computer intelligence and human intelligence on the same level...and thus making US similar...making it less likely for any "confrontation'...\nbesdies...if ar obot was "jealous" of the extra senses of thehuman body....after acheiving such tehcnology...we could easily develope synthetic bodies made of biological /nanotech grown tissue...and thatwould make them more equal...and thus---not view us, nor we them as "different"\n\nto a point...that a "synthetic human" and a "machine enhanced human" would be almost viewed the same...\n\nthe synthetic human...just has a robotic mind....whith a human like body....the enhacned humans (probably most humans by 2045) are just human brain...with enhanced features that make it the same as a robotic mind...\n\nso in essence, they are same...\n\nyou see? its only our primit
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Humans have made huge impacts on the physical environment by logging, farming, building, and really just existing. The problem is the rate of change is accelerating as the population grows exponentially and people become industrialised and require more and more. The earth really cannot sustain this growth in all aspects of people greed and need. There is no easy way to slow it let alone stop it.\n\nAs a planet we are doomed! not tomorrow but before this century is out.
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HARDWORK\n\nThats it....\n\nNothing Other than this can bring us SUCCESS sooner or later
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its future will grow. Make it happen
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Common sense solutions but difficult to implement.\n\n1.  Consumption\nCut down on consumption through reducing wastage.  This can be as easy as switching off aircons or lights not in use.  Another area is the over consumption eg Las Vegas.  It is almost obscene the way the whole place is lighted up.  Encourage use of smaller and more economical cars.  Some cars are just petrol guzzlers for the egomaniacs.\n\n2.  Relations with OPEC\nThese relations are sometimes dictated by politics.  The idea is not to rely on them too much by doing 1 & 2. Anyway, most of these countries elites are just squandering trillions of $ without significant benefits to their poors.\n\n3.  Dependency\nDevelop current technologies in alternative energy sources.  The technologies are available.  The problem is to convince the petrol trading communities to fully support research and utilization of alternative energies.  Can you imagine the nightmares these people such as large oil companies, OPEC, etc are having should someone came up with a viable and sustainable alternative energies?
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Approve stem cell research. This will be the next great technology. If we conceed this to off-shore interests, the game is over.
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I think this can help you :)http://www.ecotao.com/holism/hu_mod.htm\ngood luck
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oil is not a sustainable resource, so it will not last forever. \n\nSustainable resources, like sustainable agriculture, and sustainable development is  a way that we can configure human development a society in such a way that it does not compromise the need of future inhabitants of earth, this includes not just your children, by your childrens children and so on. I have included a link on sustainability it is packed with information and tons of resources to learn more about why it's essential to our existence. People are getting together everyday in this country (and with other countries) and around the world to create and improve sustainability.
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i recommend that you do more research work on that because it is not an easy business, you have to make feasibility study, and while you are doing that, surely you'll know and find out how you do it and who you can talk to.\nYou can ask people who has done that before just for guidance.
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Think of the trends.  There are patterns that are flukes and patterns that have solid substance behind them.  We know that energy is going to change and going to get more expensive, so what parts of that scene interests you?  We know that food is going to stay important, even more important as weather changes and we overfish the seas and start using more and more of our agricultural production for energy.  Some materials are not getting any easier to find, so who has new finds or big reserves of iron, copper, or special steels needed things like chromium and vandium and nickel?  The eco-friendly movement is big and getting bigger, so who are the most green companies in various industrial segments?  Nano technology is weird, wild, and amazingly wonderful, something to consider as well.  Good luck.