While fossil fuels greatly contribute to human society,they pose great challenges to natural resources,the environment,and climate change.Developed countries,like the United States,formulated strategic measures to ens...While fossil fuels greatly contribute to human society,they pose great challenges to natural resources,the environment,and climate change.Developed countries,like the United States,formulated strategic measures to ensure their sustainable development and leading positions in the world.These measures include new green policies,development of shale gas,revitalization of nuclear power,energy independence,reindustrialization,and new low-carbon development based on a combination of Internet technology and renewable energy.Developing countries are also trying to introduce balanced strategies of poverty alleviation and sustainable development.Globally,industrial civilization is being transformed to ecological civilization and green,low-carbon development is a global trend.Addressing climate change provides new strategic factors to further this development.China should take substantial actions to realize sustainable development in a new road:China is in the critical stage of changing its development mode,so it is vital to choose an appropriate development path.This extensive development comes at the high price of consuming too much resources and scarring the environment.Mitigation and adaptation strategies for addressing climate change can help the transition of development.Based on the analysis of the development data of developed countries,the author introduces the concept of"two-type developed countries"with an understanding that not all developed countries must take the same development mode.He also holds the view that China should achieve modernization in a more energy-saving and more carbon-efficient manner compared with that of two-type developed countries.An analysis of"two competitions"that China is facing shows that changing the developing mode is urgent and China should grasp this opportunity in the next five to ten years,which is a key period for this transition.This paper discusses the low-carbon development goals and the three-step process.Low-carbon development does not necessarily restrict economic develo展开更多
We humans are now a truly global species.Our common future depends on our successful transition to an ecological civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth's living systems to provi...We humans are now a truly global species.Our common future depends on our successful transition to an ecological civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth's living systems to provide every person with a means of living consistent with their need for health and happiness.To achieve this future,we must navigate a successful species transition from transnational corporations to national governments as our primary institutions of governance,from competition to cooperation as our dominant mode of relating,and from growing GDP to meeting the spiritual and material needs of all the world's people within the limits of what living Earth can sustain as the economy's defining purpose.The governing institutions of an ecological civilization will support national and bio-regional self-reliance,the free sharing of information and technology,and balanced trade in goods for which one nation has a natural surplus and another is unable to produce for itself.Among the world's nations,China may be the best positioned to lead the world in this transition.展开更多
文摘While fossil fuels greatly contribute to human society,they pose great challenges to natural resources,the environment,and climate change.Developed countries,like the United States,formulated strategic measures to ensure their sustainable development and leading positions in the world.These measures include new green policies,development of shale gas,revitalization of nuclear power,energy independence,reindustrialization,and new low-carbon development based on a combination of Internet technology and renewable energy.Developing countries are also trying to introduce balanced strategies of poverty alleviation and sustainable development.Globally,industrial civilization is being transformed to ecological civilization and green,low-carbon development is a global trend.Addressing climate change provides new strategic factors to further this development.China should take substantial actions to realize sustainable development in a new road:China is in the critical stage of changing its development mode,so it is vital to choose an appropriate development path.This extensive development comes at the high price of consuming too much resources and scarring the environment.Mitigation and adaptation strategies for addressing climate change can help the transition of development.Based on the analysis of the development data of developed countries,the author introduces the concept of"two-type developed countries"with an understanding that not all developed countries must take the same development mode.He also holds the view that China should achieve modernization in a more energy-saving and more carbon-efficient manner compared with that of two-type developed countries.An analysis of"two competitions"that China is facing shows that changing the developing mode is urgent and China should grasp this opportunity in the next five to ten years,which is a key period for this transition.This paper discusses the low-carbon development goals and the three-step process.Low-carbon development does not necessarily restrict economic develo
文摘We humans are now a truly global species.Our common future depends on our successful transition to an ecological civilization that works in balanced and harmonious relationship with Earth's living systems to provide every person with a means of living consistent with their need for health and happiness.To achieve this future,we must navigate a successful species transition from transnational corporations to national governments as our primary institutions of governance,from competition to cooperation as our dominant mode of relating,and from growing GDP to meeting the spiritual and material needs of all the world's people within the limits of what living Earth can sustain as the economy's defining purpose.The governing institutions of an ecological civilization will support national and bio-regional self-reliance,the free sharing of information and technology,and balanced trade in goods for which one nation has a natural surplus and another is unable to produce for itself.Among the world's nations,China may be the best positioned to lead the world in this transition.
