For 25 years, sustainable development has been held up as the solution to the world’s problems. But instead we have had ever more pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change. The concept of sustainability has been abused like few other terms in history. It is time to think not just about sustaining the world’s badly damaged ecosystems and human communities, but about regenerating them instead. Sustainable development (SD) has been a global orthodoxy ever since it
Sustainability is unhelpful: we need to think about regeneration
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