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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Road to Rio + 20



In a world dominated by human activity, how can we ensure sustainability when economic growth is a given in the developed and a necessity in the developing world? Jeffrey Sachs offers two approaches. One involves stabilizing population, with the concomitant need to improve survival rates to ensure access to contraception and empower women and girls. For the other, Sachs calls for a systemic approach to new technology supported by an economic strategy “where markets and society make choices together”. 
Furthermore, he emphasizes “we don’t need global negotiations, we need global brainstorming and global problem solving”/.../
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