“ The best one can say is that development has created a global middle-class of individuals with cars, bank accounts, and career aspirations. It is made up of the majority in the North and small elites in the South and its size roughly equals that eight per cent of the world population which owns a car. The internal rivalries of that class make a lot of noise in world politics, condemning to silence the overwhelming majority of the people. At the end of development, the question of justice looms larger that ever.
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Wolfgang Sachs, Planet Dialectics
Question: How do you define sustainable development?
If one say it means development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Whose needs?
Survival needs or luxury needs
For the task of global ecology can be understood in two ways: it is
either a technocratic effort to keep development afloat against the
drift of plunder and pollution; or it is a cultural effort to shake off the
hegemony of ageing Western values and gradually retire from the
development race. —Envirosocialism: Contradiction or Promise
To all Climate Chance teammates and my fellow classmates of the University of Hong Kong:
Why are you here?
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