May 21, 2012 08:00 AM
Barry Gardiner
Agenda for Rio+20
The case made by Caroline Spelman (Britain is rising to the challenge of greening our economy, is woefully inadequate. We urgently need to redefine the way we measure economic growth. Green conservatism as mediated by George Osborne sees the natural environment as detached from the wider economy, when it underpins it. Natural capital must be conserved or transformed into other forms of capital – social, intellectual or physical – if we are to achieve economic growth that is genuinely sustainable.
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