Selfishness

“Can Selfishness Save the Environment” Economists and Biologists have come to realize that people are really only motivated by self-interest. For economists this means economic incentives, and for biologists it means the pursuit of short-term goals that were once the means to reproduction. The two professions generally believe that people are not willing to pay for the long-term good of society or mother earth. For example in business, the selling of products that use CFC’…

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