Reasons to worry about the human environment

Ausubel, Jesse H.

doi:10.1016/s0160-791x(99)00011-1

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“…This trend must be of concern to demographers, whose duty it is to report population trends and to express opinions on their implications without fear or 27 Ausubel (1999) was prescient in his discussion of the reasons to be worried about the future. One is the rejection of science and engineering.…”

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COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the global sustainable development project and post-crises demography

MacKellar¹

2022

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The global sustainable development project as currently conceived is foundering, and the twin crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian War have driven a stake through its heart. Some of the reasons for this failure are fundamental design flaws, while others are practical. The resources to bring the project – or its successor, and any other global sustainable development project of similar design and ambition that might emerge – to a successful conclusion do not exist, and never did. What lessons are we learning, and how can they inform post-2030 sustainable development goals? In this essay, the effects of the catastrophes of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the global sustainable development project are enumerated, SDG by SDG, with special attention being paid to the implications for demography. In closing, recommendations for reforms of the project are presented, as are some suggestions for the field of demography in the changed global context. The most concrete, feasible immediate recommendations are to make up recently lost ground, specifically in the areas of vaccination and education; and to reform the profoundly flawed international asylum and refugee system.

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COVID-19, the Russo-Ukrainian War, the global sustainable development project and post-crises demography

MacKellar¹

2022

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“…Municipal wastewater is a combination of domestic wastewater, small amount of industrial and agro-zootechnical wastewater, storm water, drain water, surface infiltration, and ground water (Ausubel, 1999). When this drain of a municipal wastewater enters an industrial area, a number of pollutants are expected to be added in it, most of them are toxic in nature.…”

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“…These are consumed by the organisms like algae, causing an excessive growth e.g., red-tide. When these algae die and decay, they quickly deplete the dissolved oxygen in the water body causing life threatening condition for the aquatic life (Ausubel, 1999;Benka-Coker and Ojior, 1995). Appearance and odour are direct indicators of wastewater pollution.…”

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confidence: 99%