considerations sustain account sustainable terms opposite establish misleading using reasonably decade misunderstand prospering use flourish Looking at the basic biological systems, the world is not doing very well. Yet economic indicators show the world is __1__ . Despite a slow start at the beginning of the eighties, global economic output increased by more than a fifth during the __2_ . The economy grew, trade increased, and millions of new jobs were created. How can biological indicators show the __3__ of economic indicators? The answer is that the economic indicators have a basic fault: they show no difference between resource uses that __4__ progress and those uses that will hurt it. The main measure of economic progress is the gross national product (GNP). In simple__5__ , this totals the value of all goods and services produced and subtracts loss in value of factories and equipment. Developed a half-century ago, GNP helped __6__ a common way among countries of measuring change in economic output. For some time, this seemed to work __7__ well, but serious weaknesses are now appearing. As indicated earlier, GNP includes loss in value of factories and equipment, but it does not take into__8__ the loss of natural resources, including nonrenewable resources such as oil or renewable resources . This basic fault can produce a __9__ sense of national economic health. According to GNP, for example, countries that overcut forests actually do better than those that preserve their forests. The trees cut down are counted as income but no subtraction is made for __10__up the forests.