Services and the Environment

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the subject of services and the environment and states that it is impossible to completely decouple the environmental impact of the service industry from that of the manufacturing sector as they are interdependent on each other. The paper further discusses the human capital that goes into each sector and the consumers who drive the sectors with their level of demand. The paper concludes that no matter how one apportions the environmental impact of society as a whole, there will always be some impact associated with the service industry because of complex relationships.

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Conclusion

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"Service industries have other inputs as well - from the supplies needed to run the business to the transportation networks needed to bring the human capital to the workplace to the communications networks needed to bring the products to the market. This cannot be understated - some service industry firms have a huge environmental impact in the way they bring their goods to market. Consider a legal contract that one lawyer sends by overnight courier to another lawyer on the other side of the country. The physical product may be only a few pieces of paper, but there is a high environmental impact borne of bringing that legal service to market simply by virtue of the transportation service provided."

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