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As global economy doubles, poverty persists and planetary damage deepens

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A new study published in Nature shows that as the global economy more than doubled between 2000 and 2022, it still left billions of people without life's essentials, while rapidly pushing Earth's life-supporting systems further beyond safe limits.

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Madrid, Oct 1 (EFE).- Despite the fact that the world's GDP has more than doubled this century, billions of people still have no access to basic services such as food, housing and medical care, and environmental damage has intensified beyond the safe limits.This is what a study published in Nature magazine warns of the extent to which rich countries have driven most of the overdemand while the poorest endure most of the deprivations.

Twenty years of economic growth and still glaring inequality. A study published on October 1 in the journal Nature calculated that between 2000 and 2022, global GDP more than doubled, without the reduction in inequality keeping pace. This growth has come at the cost of irreparable ecological damage, as by 2022, humanity had already crossed at least six of the nine planetary boundaries. Researchers analyzed 35 indicators between 2000 and 2022. Th…

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Despite global GDP more than doubling this century, billions of people still lack access to basic services such as food, housing, and healthcare, and environmental damage has intensified beyond safe limits. This is according to a study published in the journal Nature, which shows the extent to which rich countries have driven most of the excess demand while poorer countries bear the brunt of the deprivation.

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