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
Sustaining our city
Welcome to the Third Wave
Fixing photosynthesis, plant respiration in a changing world and rubisco, a protein with a bad attitude.
The nuclear age?
Healthy parent, healthy child
Robots and Emotions
A big picture future
Fuzzy Foundations
Farmers for Climate Action
Connected cousins, genetics, ancestry, e-cigarettes
Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet
Climate Action in Federal Parliament
Economics of the renewable energy revolution with Andrew Blakers
ACT Fossil Emblem
Healthy food, healthy brain
Shun Deng Fam - Political Ecologist ANU
Science For All
Welcome to the Odour Lab. Part 2
Welcome to the Odour Lab. Part 1
Optics and Visuals
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
DNA Today: A Genetics Podcast
Museum of the Missing
Strange by Nature Podcast
Sasquatch Chronicles
Hidden Brain