Inside Sustainability: Facts, Figures, Bullshit - Part III: Sales/Turnover Figures
_kt75 | reflections 01.3/2013
-- a _kt75 | reflection _download Paper: server 1 | server 2 _download Supporting Information: server 1 | server 2 _download troubles: get your free copy Keywords Genuine sustainable development, turnover, sales figures, hype, car makers, China, overhang-effect, overlap-effect. Figures contained: _Annual GDP growth in China 2003-2013 (incl. projections till 2015) _Sales figures of Audi, BMW and VW 2008-2012 _CO 2 -emissions China 2008-2012 _Ground plan of Chinese expressway network 2010 _Annual road fatalities in China 2008-2012 Summary Corporate sales/turnover figures represent the quantitative and qualitative specification of the impacts of any kind on resources of any type. Also here are ‘facts’ and ‘figures’ vehicles typically used to promote, convey and enforce interests in a more or less reliable way. The car industry, with particular consideration of the so-called ‘emerging economies’ (e.g. China), represents an excellent ba...