Going for Green or Growth? | Sustainable Cities Collective

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Why are economic and social issues still not seen as interdependent with environmental issues, requiring an integrated, coordinated approach? Or is this fact known but simply not acted on because of power relationships?

Duane Tilden‘s insight:

…We need to broaden our idea of progress and success, adopting prosperity instead of GDP growth because it encompasses general flourishing, thriving, general wellbeing, happiness and health as well as economic factors – socio-economic goals should not continue to be geared to more and more money for a few. Efficiency needs to replace waste.

… without an integrated and coordinated approach to social, economic and environmental issues we won’t have dynamically stable, secure ways of living that are able to persist over time.

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