Development
It’s time we put the ‘development’ back into ‘sustainable development’. Ever since we started using ‘sustainability’ or ‘sustainable’ as shorthand, the focus has been on continuity – often perverted as growth – rather than development. We like to say that business can’t succeed in a society that fails, which is true in the long term. Unfortunately, in the short-term, business can still thrive while exploiting labour, destroying the environment and pushing us into dangerous climate change. Let’s shift the focus back to development – improving the quality and health of ecosystems, society, humans and the economy – and only then to making this sustainable.
— Wayne Visser
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