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Conjectures About the Chances of Ultimate Global Sustainability

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Our technological, economic and political thinking is dominated by the growth paradigm. However, societal learning at the local, national and global level may eventually lead to greater acceptance of the sustainability paradigm.

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  2. In the highly industrialized countries, this is no longer the case with a few mass pollutants, for example SO’ and fertilizers which are discussed below. Otherwise and on a global scale, the above assumption may long remain valid.

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  1. Department of General Systems Studies, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153, Japan

    H. Krupp

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  1. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, 6-1 Komaba 4-Chome, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan

    Kei Takeuchi

  2. Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba City, Tsukuba 305, Japan

    Masatoshi Yoshino

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Krupp, H. (1991). Conjectures About the Chances of Ultimate Global Sustainability. In: Takeuchi, K., Yoshino, M. (eds) The Global Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01085-3_13

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