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العجز الآخر في اليونان

Dec 16, 2015 Alessandro Galli , Mathis Wackernagel

أوكلاند ــ كانت المالية العامة اليونانية موضع اهتمام كبير طوال العقد المنصرم. وحين واجهت البلاد، في نوفمبر/تشرين ثاني أول مراجعة لمدى تقدم إصلاحاتها في إطار اتفاقها الأخير مع دائنيها ــ وتلك ممارسة مطلوبة للحصول على ضخ جديد من الأموال لخطط الإنقاذ ــ وُضِع العجز في ميزانيتها مرة أخرى تحت المجهر.

بيد أن اليونانيين سيحسنون صنعا بالتأمل في نوع آخر من العجز ــ نوع يخضع لفحص عام أقل كثيرا مما حدث، ولكن سيكون له عواقب اقتصادية بنفس درجة الخطورة. ولا تواجه اليونان، مثلها مثل باقي منطقة المتوسط (والعالم برمته في الحقيقة)، عجزا ماليا فقط، بل عجزا بيئيا أيضا.

وفقا لتحليلاتنا، تستخدم دول المتوسط حاليا موارد وخدمات بيئية أكثر مرتين ونصف مما بوسع نظمها البيئية تجديده. وسوف تحتاج اليونان، على سبيل المثال، إجمالي موارد وخدمات بيئية كافية لثلاثة بلدان مثلها لتلبية اعتماد اليونانيين على الطبيعة للحصول على الغذاء والألياف والأخشاب والإسكان والبنية التحتية الحضرية وعزل الكربون. وتحتاج أثينا وحدها من الطبيعة 22% أكثر مما بوسع كل نظمها البيئية توفيره. وبعد مرور أعوام من الركود تراجع خلالها الضغط على الموارد الطبيعية لليونان، بدأ الطلب في الارتفاع مرة أخرى، مع بعض التحسن في نمو الناتج المحلي الإجمالي.

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Alessandro Galli

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Alessandro Galli is a senior scientist and the director of the Mediterranean and MENA regions initiative at the Global Footprint Network.

Mathis Wackernagel

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Mathis Wackernagel is the co-creator of the Ecological Footprint and President and Co-founder of the Global Footprint Network.

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george sos Dec 20, 2015

Correct!i d like to add the mining companies,the investors who want the best for greece..:)#skouries ...
This deficit is not Greek,it is global.
#Oil industry,#weapons industry, etc,are higher polluters than the average Greek Athenian...But ,you chose to mention him ...why?
Distracting attention from the big vultures to the people again.....the work of globalisation and its proponents.
There is no such thing as Green (economic)growth.
You either are for the vultures or you are against them.There s no middle ground here.
You can not mine and keep the environment too.You can not have growth in tourism with hundreds of flights over a small area of athens,but blame the citizens of the city for pollution.If we are against cars in athens,this has to do not with the environment but mostly with patience.with time.time lost from our lives ,for moving around a cage.
If you care about the humans(and thus about their environment) you start with the infrastructure that makes the lives of people hell.you startt with the economic system that exploits,pollutes,and doesnt care about the well being of people.If we are to care about the human we better start with the way we treat the human,not the air that it breathes while you keep them chained working as slaves for an empty of meaning life towards a consumption that you promote in order to maintain your own existence...aaaaahhhhh!!!i said it all in one sentence.
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M M Dec 18, 2015

Both writers need to get a life. I bet they do not even know where Greece is. Some issues in this article would have been true prior to the economic crisis, where pollution and consumption were high but now……. People have no money to eat. They are ravaging the rubbish bins for left overs and the forests for wood to warm up during the cold nights…..
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Les W Kuzyk Dec 17, 2015

The telling number of 1.6 planets currently being consumed globally in terms of biocapacity speaks volumes. This Ecological Footprint, though not the only measure of sustainability, rates as one of the best. Three units, planets, global hectares and tons of carbon make for flexible messaging. To manage, one must measure.
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Michael Public Dec 17, 2015

Same story in most countries, especially poorer ones.
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