“Our foot is stuck on the accelerator and we are heading towards an abyss” (Ban Ki-Moon)
The global growth model is clearly on an unsustainable pathway. An exponentially expanding population, extravagant consumption patterns, rising greenhouse gases triggering catastrophic climate changes, dwindling biodiversity reserves, rapid and unregulated urbanization – these are just some of the environmentally alarming trends delivered by the existing model for economic growth. Thus, it is no surprise that while the global GDP has more than doubled in the past three decades the planet has paid a very heavy price with more than 60% of its natural ecosystems being degraded. Continue reading “Politically conceptualizing a “Green Economy – Malik Amin Aslam Khan”