17 April 2005

Winning the Great Wager

This is a must-read article if you are at all concerned with building a truly sustainable future without a return to the dark-ages or worse. You get a flavour of the thing from this quote: "We need a new model which allows unprecedented prosperity on a sustainable basis. We need a new model which will let everyone on the planet get rich and stay rich, while healing the planet's ecosystems. We need to create what some Brits call 'one-planet livelihoods' which are so prosperous, so dynamic, so enticing that the alternative of chasing the old model of green follows gold seems simply moronic."

By the time you read this you will have been exposed to the current options in their positive and negative spins.The comments at the end should be read too.

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Winning the Great Wager:

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