President of Club of Rome to deliver major address in Stockholm
The 2010 Gordon Goodman lecture takes place at 10:30 on Friday 28 May 2010 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Dr Ashok Khosla, one of the world's foremost thinkers and doers on environment and development issues, will speak on 'Equity and empowerment: the missing variables in the sustainability equation'.Criticism of the global economic system tends to argue that humanity is reaching ‘limits’ or ‘boundaries’, that ‘peaks’ in resources are just around the corner. Such terms imply the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet. From the 1972 Club of Rome report