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The postulate of reducing the rate at which the world converts material resources into emissions and waste has been part of the environmental discourse from the outset. Interestingly enough, even in the 1970s this prescriptive and somewhat pessimistic formula for preventing a global environmental crisis had received a more optimistic response: the hypothesis that advanced industrialised countries are progressing “beyond the era of materials”.
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Jänicke, M. (2001). Towards an End to the “Era of Materials”? Discussion of a Hypothesis. In: Binder, M., Jänicke, M., Petschow, U. (eds) Green Industrial Restructuring. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04419-3_3
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