Age of the enviropreneur

摘要

Engineer author James Bradford Moody in his book, The Sixth Wave, talks about the next wave of innovation being the sixth wave, "... driven by resource efficiency, enabled through the pricing of waste and natural resources, and turbo-charged by clean technologies". The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev was the first to bring the Kondratiev 'waves' to international attention in his book The Major Economic Cycles (1925), alongside other works written in the same decade. Kondratiev waves are described as sinusoidal-like cycles in the modern capitalist world economy. Moody predicts the sixth wave to be driven by resource efficiency and clean technology. Over the 200 years since the Industrial Revolution, we have seen economic growth strongly coupled with consumption. Natural resource consumption by humans has increased to 125％ of global carrying capacity and could rise to 170％ by 2040.