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What would GDP look like if it considered that industry tends to destroy the planet?
2014-08-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Considering that it's the basic yardstick by which we measure the health of our economy, gross domestic product (GDP) is pretty flawed. Critics have pointed out for decades that GDP fails to measure consequences of industry, which can in turn impede economic growth. (Think about, say, climate change, which promises to eviscerate certain cash crops.) GDP just doesnt tell the whole story. But what if we factored air pollution into the equation? What if we actually calculated the premature mortality...
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