POL250Y5 Lecture 12: JPE 250 (lecture 12.2)
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Long term solutions: long term changes in the way our economic and political system works. Reform law so that it benefits society/environment opposed to corporations. * reports to oced where they collect data on quality of life, and measure it across all western industrialized nations and compare. * canada has a low housing affordability, we have good sanitation, we have high education and cognitive skils, *in chapter 12, boyd presents 8 long term solutions to the environmental health crisis in. The first one calls for greater attention to well-being as opposed to money . *looking at the oecd better life intiative, you can see the data for canada: after looking at this document. *we are consuming our natural environment more quickly than can be sustained (we are burning natural resources quickly) * need to recycle our wastes as inputs into a circular economy: * majority of our health problems come from burning fossil fuels.
