“… The policy prescriptions are familiar: reduce energy, waste and professional services charges; enhance the skills of the employed and the unemployed; drive competition in non-traded sectors; foster innovation and RD programmes; develop world-class broadband; and correct the public finances and channel credit to viable businesses. The new element here is the focus on reskilling and training …” (more)
[Pat McArdle, Irish Times, 15 January]
Sustainable grwoth is an oxymoron. Meadows et al ‘Limits to Growth’. Infinite grwoth on a finite planet is impossible. There is no scientific basis fro ‘sustainable growth’. Science of Sustainability report 2006 endorses herman dalys definition and The Natural step definition of sustainability. Please read. Regards Mark