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Speaking for humanity, Bezos claims that we don’t want to live in a “retrograde world” where we’d have to freeze population growth. Elon Musk says colonization on other planets is a necessity to ensure that the human race survives. Richard Branson is again exploiting astronomical business opportunities with commercial space travel. According to Stephen Hawking, “with climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious”. Leaving Earth and sending the species off to colonize other planets will only exacerbate world problems and leave lots of people behind to face whichever disaster comes first
Posted on 20/07/23
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Accelerating Circular Economy Solutions to Achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
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Posted on 06/05/24
The Economic Commitment of Climate Change
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Posted on 29/04/24
Circular Economy – Principles for Buildings Design
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Posted on 26/04/24
Life Cycle Costing: Evaluate Sustainability Outcomes for Building and Construction Sector
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Posted on 24/04/24
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Posted on 23/04/24
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Posted on 22/04/24
SDG-Oriented Supply Chains: Business Practices for Procurement and Distribution
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Posted on 18/04/24
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Posted on 18/04/24
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Posted on 11/04/24
Circular City Actions Framework – Bringing the Circular Economy to Every City
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Posted on 08/04/24
Legal Rights of Nature
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Posted on 01/04/24
Deception Detection in Conversations Using the Proximity of Linguistic Markers
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