Cyndee Miller poses a challenging question when she asks if projects can simultaneously bring back the economy and protect the earth.  Lester Brown seemed to have the same challenge on his mind when he wrote in his book, Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth, “transforming our environmentally destructive economy into one
that can sustain progress depends on a Copernican shift in our economic mindset, a recognition that the economy is part of the earth’s ecosystem and can sustain progress only if it is restructured so that it is compatible with it” as well as, “it is up to governments to foster the national vision of an eco-economy and to adopt the ecologically-defined economic policies needed to build it.  This will require a systematic effort to incorporate input from ecologists in economic policy formulation, especially in restructuring taxes and subsidies to help the market reflect the ecological truth” (Brown, 2003).

Do you agree with Brown’s admonishments and advisories?

 

Brown, L. R. (2003). Eco-economy: Building an economy for the Earth. London: Earthscan.

 

 

 

From Voices on Project Management:
By Cyndee Miller

Climate change … heralded as the greatest and most pressing existential threat to humankind.

Or rather, it was … until COVID-19.

With the world at a virtual standstill, greenhouse gas emissions plummeted, air quality shot up and ecosystems thrived sans interve…

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