Andrew Winston

MAY 14, 2018

And we must do it without overwhelming our natural resources or making our climate uninhabitable. How do we feed 9 billion or 10 billion people on a planet with a fixed amount of arable land? The stated mission of Microsoft’s AI efforts is “to empower every person and organization to thrive in a resource-constrained world.”.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources. On a farcical level, we could just race to get all the resources before they disappear.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources. On a farcical level, we could just race to get all the resources before they disappear.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Not likely.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But fourth, and perhaps most importantly, the world faces enormous, thorny challenges that business is feeling: climate change, growing inequality (and awareness that these CEOs make hundreds of times more than their employees), water and resource scarcity, soil degradation and loss of biodiversity, and more. Not likely.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The world’s megatrends — like climate change, resource pressures, the rise of clean technology and renewable energy, radical transparency, and generational shifts in expectations of business — are already affecting business directly. If you enjoyed this article, please sign up for Andrew Winston's RSS feed , or by email.

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

Resource Pressures : We will be forced to more aggressively confront resource constraints.To Resource Pressures : We will be forced to more aggressively confront resource constraints.To Water will be a stressed resource, and it seems likely that many cities will be constantly in a state of water shortage.

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