Is our world view sustainable?
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About the video: ‘Is our world view sustainable?’
Ann Pettifor analyses the way we live today, paying special refernece to the significance of the Jubilee 2000 movement, reaching far back to biblical times and the Judaic custom of the Sabbath. Since the 1970s, this enlightened notion of periodic regeneration has been abolished. The idea that was to succeed it – that we can have a global economy that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – is quite simply unsustainable.
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Filmed: London, England on 1 November 2004
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2004 Big Picture TV
About Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is the Director of Jubilee Research at the New Economics Foundation in London and is the former Director of Jubilee 2000. She is also editor of ‘The Real World Economic Outlook’, an alternative to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook.
She is a co-author of the Green New Deal, published by the new economics foundation in July 2008 – a set of policies to deal with threats posed by the Credit Crunch, Peak Oil and Climate Change.
She is also the executive director of the consultancy Advocacy International, which undertakes research and advises governments and organisations on matters relating to international finance and sustainable development.
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