Brundtland Report ("Our Common Future")
The 1987 Brundtland Report gave the widely used definition of sustainable development as meeting present needs without compromising the future. The chapter questions whether that definition now sustains existing economic systems more than it sustains the planet.
"Then came the Brundtland Report in '87, giving us that ubiquitous definition of sustainable development: meeting present needs without compromising the future." The author questions whether this definition became "a tool for sustaining the very economic systems driving the crisis," concluding it "seems to sustain the status quo more than it sustains the planet."
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- The Clock of the Long Now (Stewart Brand) · both placed under Intergenerational equity and the Seventh Generation
- Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) "Seventh Generation" Principle · both placed under Intergenerational equity and the Seventh Generation
- "Brown Economy" (Pavan Sukhdev) · discussed together in section 011
- Club of Rome · discussed together in section 009
- First Earth Day · discussed together in section 009
- Founding of Greenpeace · discussed together in section 009
- Green Economy · discussed together in section 011
- The Limits to Growth · discussed together in section 011
- MOTH (More-Than-Human Rights) Program (NYU) · discussed together in section 096
- Santa Barbara oil spill (1969) · discussed together in section 009
- UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) · discussed together in section 011
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- Sustainability
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- Chapter 1, section 009 · Flickers of Awakening: Have We Learned the Lessons?
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