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Nature’s Decline Deepens: Insights from the Living Planet Report 2024
The Living Planet Report 2024 reveals that wildlife populations have dropped 73% on average since 1970. It warns that national governments are failing to meet biodiversity targets and calls for an urgent need to transform our current economic and food systems, but it only skirts around the issue of continued global population growth.
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Rethinking Prosperity: How the Care Economy Redefines Success
How can we reorient economies to prioritise people and the planet over profit? The Care Economy is one such reimagining, that values human wellbeing and sustainability above traditional profit-driven approaches, which undervalue and neglect care work.
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The Big Growth Lie: Herman Daly and his Vision for a Steady Future
When we think of economic growth, it’s often assumed that more is always better. But for Herman Daly, one of the founding voices in ecological economics, this growth mindset is fundamentally flawed.