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A New Economic Model for Global Challenges
Please don’t get this economy moving again, it will eventually kill us.
These words began a recent op-ed by Peter Brown, Professor of Environment at McGill University in Montreal and Co-author of the book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.
Many experts feel the current economic crisis also provides an opportunity for a paradigm shift in how we execute economic policy. Peter Brown believes it’s time for a new set of economic rules which don’t depend on continuing and accelerating growth.
In his book, Peter discusses new ways to solve our environmental and economic problems. He believes going forward, developed countries like the United States must factor in the impact of its policies on the rest of the world, and that we have to look beyond technological fixes and gadgetry as solutions to our many global challenges like climate change, food, energy shortages and population explosion.
Also with Peter is Paul Heltne, Director of the Center for Humans and Nature and President Emeritus of the Chicago academy of Sciences. We asked Paul how the Center for Humans and Nature got involved with Peter Brown.
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