At the heart of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is a contradiction: by assuming the Ever Bigger Pie economic model, everybody will be better off.
But can that really happen? We explore how the SDGs got this way and the thinking behind them.
Dr Kerryn Higgs who is writer and historian, Associate Member Club of Rome (speaking here on her own behalf), and author of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (MIT Press, 2014).
She's also author of two chapters in Sustainability and the New Economics (Springer, 2022).
Interview by Rod who is co-editor of the Springer book. @FuzzyLogicSci
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Tectonic movements and historic biogeography - Octavio Jimenez Robles
They knew but they did it anyway
Forest Bathing
The energy transition
Community and the global challenge
8 Billion and counting
States of denial. A tribute to Dr Haydn Washington.
Fail / resubmit. Scoring the environment Australian
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Diet and rheumatoid arthritis
Geodesy: A guide for epic journeys
The case for steady state
Back from the dead
Geoscience Saving the World
National Science Week 2022
Climate change and hope vs despair
Banning Nuclear Weapons - Tilman Ruff
Science and comics with Stuart McMillen
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