http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).30
10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).30
Published : Jun 2022
Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment
This article explores the causes of environmental degradation and aims to explain the interconnection of state, capital, and masses as enhancing environmental degeneration. Innovation and production processes have progressed under the guise of economic gains, and entrepreneurs' efforts to produce new things, coupled with capitalistic mottos,added to the hazardous environmental pollution. My argument is backed up by the theory of tread mill production as a political-economic explanation of the causes of environmental degradation. This stance refers to the extensive capitalistic search of the state and masses as getting stuck on a "treadmill" where they have not improved economically, yet their pursuits for economic development lead them to damage the environment. Using the narrative of New York 2140, this study warns about the possible menace thwarted back by the environment. This study highlights how the innovation process under capitalistic goals leads to unnecessary over-consumption, which ultimately results in environmental unsustainability.
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Environment, Unsustainability, Innovation, Destructive
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(1) Nayab Sadiq
PhD Scholar, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
(2) Maliha Sarfraz
Associate Professor, Government Graduate College, Women, Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Amara Javed
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College Women University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Sadiq, N., Sarfraz, M., & Javed, A. (2022). Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment. Global Language Review, VII(II), 357-366. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).30
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CHICAGO : Sadiq, Nayab, Maliha Sarfraz, and Amara Javed. 2022. "Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment." Global Language Review, VII (II): 357-366 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).30
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HARVARD : SADIQ, N., SARFRAZ, M. & JAVED, A. 2022. Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment. Global Language Review, VII, 357-366.
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MHRA : Sadiq, Nayab, Maliha Sarfraz, and Amara Javed. 2022. "Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment." Global Language Review, VII: 357-366
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MLA : Sadiq, Nayab, Maliha Sarfraz, and Amara Javed. "Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment." Global Language Review, VII.II (2022): 357-366 Print.
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OXFORD : Sadiq, Nayab, Sarfraz, Maliha, and Javed, Amara (2022), "Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment", Global Language Review, VII (II), 357-366
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TURABIAN : Sadiq, Nayab, Maliha Sarfraz, and Amara Javed. "Destructive Innovation to the Unsustainability of the Environment." Global Language Review VII, no. II (2022): 357-366. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).30