tirsdag den 7. oktober 2008

Sustainability versus growth

Had an interesting night yesterday! Together with my boyfriend, we had invited 10 friends for a late night talks with Dr. Sylvia Karlsson - the Secretary General of the International Environment Forum.

Here are some of our collective reflections:
Can we chose both sustainability and growth, when we have realized that our lives of growing and sustaining the world is not in balance? Should we redefine the measurement of growth to instead look at the human nature? Is growth a complacement of happiness? We need growth, but in other ways than materialistic growth! Is the problem then business, because business is pushing consumption to encourage more economic growth? As individuals we know how to reduce growth, but will we do it? Is there a need for a more global committment? Who are responsible - governance, individuals, entrepreneurs? Should we adapt or aviod climate change?

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