Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity is the follow-up to 1997’s Factor Four, which helped change policy-makers’ and other key influencers’ views about wealth creation and innovation – ie, that technology could reduce our use of resources by half while doubling prosperity. Now the authors demonstrate how 80% increases in resource and energy efficiency can help solve the climate crisis while improving the wealth of the world’s populations, looking at both practical solutions to achieving this as well as theories of how we should define well-being.
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Factor Five: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity is the follow-up to 1997’s Factor Four, which helped change policy-makers’ and other key influencers’ views about wealth creation and innovation – ie, that technology could reduce our use of resources by half while doubling prosperity. Now the authors demonstrate how 80% increases in resource and energy efficiency can help solve the climate crisis while improving the wealth of the world’s populations, looking at both practical solutions to achieving this as well as theories of how we should define well-being.