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“Sustainable Development”—prehistory of a term—Development that doesn’t threaten future generations—Development without growth in living nature—Competitive relations in the biota and society—Civilization’s rate of growth, the biota’s rate of evolution—A word from concerned scientists.
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Granted, not all modern climatologists, including supporters of the Golytsin-Sagan Hypothesis, find these calculations convincing. This is because the model turned out to be too sensitive to changes in input data, so even small variations lead to materially different results.
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Danilov-Danil’yan, V.I., Reyf, I.E. (2018). Foundations of Sustainability in Nature and Society. In: The Biosphere and Civilization: In the Throes of a Global Crisis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67193-2_13
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