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Is economic growth incompatible with sustainable development?

By United Earth · On September 7th, 2011

Nobel Prize Laureate Albert Einstien

'The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.' Albert Einstein. Photograph: Corbis


By Jo Confino
Guardian Professional Network
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 September 2011

It is easier to point out the problems than find a systemic solution, but it is vital that we are able to articulate a better future

In the next few days I am taking part in a debate with the minister of state for energy and climate change, Charles Hendry, on the subject of whether economic growth is incompatible with sustainable development.[snip]

Much of the current sustainability debate is based on an acceptance of the existing capitalist system as it is. We rarely re-evaluate at a deep level what it is we are seeking to achieve as a society and whether the existing structures are helping or hindering.

As a result, solutions to the multitude of problems we face, from climate change and biodiversity loss to resource and water scarcity, tend to be built around iterative change.
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