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with curtailing personal liberty or even recognizing limits of resources. They are,
rather, required to define a system under study and, as such, should be seen as part
of an objective system to monitor and document the flow of resources. This assessment system can also be integrated as part of a workflow in design professions ethically bound to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
The impacts of how we live and what it takes to support our standard of living
can now be quantified. As individual behaviors and societal norms continue to
evolve over the next two generations, we will benefit from new technologies that
will tally their environmental effects on the fly. Our assessment tools can already
semiautomatically keep score and evaluate the risks from subtle to major shifts in
how we consume energy and material resources as we pursue happiness in all
its forms.
References
Adams JT (2017) The epic of America, Illustrated Edition. Routledge, New York, NY, pp xx
Anderson GB, Bell ML (2012) Lights out: impact of the August 2003 power outage on mortality in
New York, NY. Epidemiology 23:189–193. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e318245c61c
Berna F, Goldberg P, Horwitz LK et al (2012) Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the
Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa. Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A 109:E1215. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117620109
Brundtland GH et al (1987) Brundtland: our common future (report for the world... – Google
scholar). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 13–41
Dubois D, Ordabayeva N (2015) Social hierarchy, social status and status consumption. In: The
Cambridge handbook of consumer psychology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
England, pp 332–367. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706552.013
Elkington J (1998) Cannibals with forks: the triple bottom line of 21st century business. New
Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC/Stony Creek, CT
Fontinelle A (2020) Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life: What’s the Difference? In: Investopedia.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialtheory/08/standard-of-living-quality-oflife.asp
Gutstein D (2018) The big stall: how big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change
in Canada. Lorimer, Toronto, p 86
Hanh TN (1999) The heart of the Buddha’s teaching: transforming suffering into peace, joy, and
liberation, Illustrated Edition. Harmony, New York, pp 131–133
Heraclitus (2020) Fragments. Digireads.com Publishing, Place of publication not identified,
pp 32–38
Marx K (2008) Wage-labour and capital. Wildside Press LLC, Cabin John, MD, p 33
Obama B (2006) The audacity of Hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream, 1st edn.
Crown, New York, p 243. 261
Rodrigues H (2006) Introducing Hinduism, 1st edn. Routledge, New York, p 51
Rosling H, Rönnlund AR, Rosling O (2020) Factfulness: ten reasons we’re wrong about the world–
and why things are better than you think, Reprint edition. Flatiron Books, New York, NY,
pp 32–38
Silver C, Chen J, Kagen J, Woolsey B (2019) Standard of Living. In: Investopedia. https://www.
investopedia.com/terms/s/standard-of-living.asp
Wackernagel M, Schulz NB, Deumling D et al (2002) Tracking the ecological overshoot of
the human economy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:9266–9271. https://doi.org/10.1073/
pnas.142033699
1 Do Nothing: The Danger of Believing in a World Without Limits
with curtailing personal liberty or even recognizing limits of resources. They are,
rather, required to define a system under study and, as such, should be seen as part
of an objective system to monitor and document the flow of resources. This assessment system can also be integrated as part of a workflow in design professions ethically bound to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
The impacts of how we live and what it takes to support our standard of living
can now be quantified. As individual behaviors and societal norms continue to
evolve over the next two generations, we will benefit from new technologies that
will tally their environmental effects on the fly. Our assessment tools can already
semiautomatically keep score and evaluate the risks from subtle to major shifts in
how we consume energy and material resources as we pursue happiness in all
its forms.
References
Adams JT (2017) The epic of America, Illustrated Edition. Routledge, New York, NY, pp xx
Anderson GB, Bell ML (2012) Lights out: impact of the August 2003 power outage on mortality in
New York, NY. Epidemiology 23:189–193. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e318245c61c
Berna F, Goldberg P, Horwitz LK et al (2012) Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the
Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa. Proc Natl Acad
Sci U S A 109:E1215. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117620109
Brundtland GH et al (1987) Brundtland: our common future (report for the world... – Google
scholar). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 13–41
Dubois D, Ordabayeva N (2015) Social hierarchy, social status and status consumption. In: The
Cambridge handbook of consumer psychology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
England, pp 332–367. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107706552.013
Elkington J (1998) Cannibals with forks: the triple bottom line of 21st century business. New
Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC/Stony Creek, CT
Fontinelle A (2020) Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life: What’s the Difference? In: Investopedia.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financialtheory/08/standard-of-living-quality-oflife.asp
Gutstein D (2018) The big stall: how big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change
in Canada. Lorimer, Toronto, p 86
Hanh TN (1999) The heart of the Buddha’s teaching: transforming suffering into peace, joy, and
liberation, Illustrated Edition. Harmony, New York, pp 131–133
Heraclitus (2020) Fragments. Digireads.com Publishing, Place of publication not identified,
pp 32–38
Marx K (2008) Wage-labour and capital. Wildside Press LLC, Cabin John, MD, p 33
Obama B (2006) The audacity of Hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream, 1st edn.
Crown, New York, p 243. 261
Rodrigues H (2006) Introducing Hinduism, 1st edn. Routledge, New York, p 51
Rosling H, Rönnlund AR, Rosling O (2020) Factfulness: ten reasons we’re wrong about the world–
and why things are better than you think, Reprint edition. Flatiron Books, New York, NY,
pp 32–38
Silver C, Chen J, Kagen J, Woolsey B (2019) Standard of Living. In: Investopedia. https://www.
investopedia.com/terms/s/standard-of-living.asp
Wackernagel M, Schulz NB, Deumling D et al (2002) Tracking the ecological overshoot of
the human economy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:9266–9271. https://doi.org/10.1073/
pnas.142033699
1 Do Nothing: The Danger of Believing in a World Without Limits