Mistaking the poison for the cure - Samuel Alexander

(Unrestrained growth, along with a burgeoning population, is the root cause of climate change and here research fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, Samuel Alexander, wonders if the poison has not been confused with cure)

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n the surface, the Sustainable Development Goals, soon to be confirmed by the United Nations, seem noble and progressive. They seek to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and hunger while creating sustainable and resilient societies.

But look beneath the surface of this pleasant rhetoric and one comes face to face with a far more ominous vision of development: a vision that is fundamentally compromised by corporate interests and ultimately doomed to failure, if not catastrophe.

Read Samuel Alexander's piece here - “Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistake the poison for the cure”.