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Let’s knock down the three pillars of sustainable development! This wholly misleading picture, promoted at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, is still around. The 2012 Rio conference is an opportunity to replace it with a very different picture. The “three pillars” obscure the real relationship between the economic, the social, and the environmental. They are [...]
Sustainability questions have hardly featured at all in the course of the British general election campaign. Although many Conservative candidates deny the existence of climate change, no-one high-profile has spoken up for that view, and therefore climate has not been an issue in the campaign. However, climate is on the political agenda these days in [...]
The problems of advertising have not been high up the political agenda in many countries, yet it seems to me that we should try to tackle them much more firmly, responding to advertising’s important role as essentially a form of political and cultural bias in mass communications. The problem now is not so much that [...]
I am glad this week’s theme is called ‘sustainability’ and not ‘the environment’. The ‘environment’ always sounds like something you look at out of the window, or visit at the weekend. However what is on the agenda now is much more than that, it is about whether we can sustain the capacity of the planet [...]
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