Professor Tim Jackson Interview in The Guardian - Sustainable Business
Saturday 2 October 2010
Sustainability depends on breaking free of our consumerist fixation.
"What the professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey is seeking to do is expose the notion that our wealth and happiness are predicated on continual economic growth. He is convinced our consumerist fixation with accumulating products and services is fuelling our fears and anxieties, rather than bringing us the contentment we hoped for, and that we are so addicted that we cannot bring ourselves to admit it. Furthermore, he warns that unless we find a new sustainable economic model to guide us, we are heading for environmental and social catastrophe." Go to article on The Guardian website....