Subsidized natural resource consumption

Name(s): 
Hindrance of sustainable development by government subsidies
Overconsumption through virgin materials subsidies
Public subsidization of environmental pollution
Incidence 
The USA subsidizes conventional energy forms several times more than new, renewable, and non-polluting forms. Subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear energy amounted to many billions of dollars a year during the 1980s, whereas support for renewables dwindled to $114 million. Globally, subsidies that foster the overuse of soils, water, timber, pesticides, and land resources are estimated exceed $1 trillion a year, or almost one twentieth of the global economy.
Broader 
Unsustainable consumption patterns
Overdependence on government subsidies
Unconstrained exploitation of natural resources
Natural resource depletion due to high-level consumption
Government financing tied to exploitation of non-renewable resources
Narrower 
Counter-productive agricultural subsidies
Aggravates 
Resource depletion [in 1 loop]
Unsustainable livelihoods
Inadequacy of economic accounting systems [in 3 loops]
Lack of incentive for users to care for community property
Aggravated by 
Inequitable distribution of public subsidies
Economic dependence upon socially undesirable activities
Dependence of government revenue on inappropriate policies
Strategy(ies) 
Protesting unsound public spending
Ensuring environmental management of privatization
Uncoupling economic growth from growth in resource use
Reducing public subsidization of environmental pollution
Exposing public subsidization of environmental pollution
Providing government subsidies
Hindering sustainable development
Reference(s) 
MacNeill, J; Winsemius, P and Yakushiji, TI: Beyond Interdependence: the meshing of the world's economy and the world's ecology
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems