The SDAT Report is Coming! A Prediction
The SDAT report is coming! I have a prediction about what we will not see in the report. I am open minded, I would be happy to be proven wrong, but I think that in the upcoming report the idea of growth will not be re-imagined. Economic growth is considered the bedrock of community planning, and economics in general. It's not just an essential component of our economics, it is also a social value, widespread in our country and across the globe. Corporate officers are bound by law to strive for growth and produce this singular result. But I, and many others, question this value and see the fall-out from it in the social justice issues we face, in environmental destruction and in a quality of life experience too dependent on materialism. Sustainability is the value that replaces open-ended growth. Sustainability replaces stratified incomes with fairness and opportunity and limits extreme wealth, it replaces environmental wastefulness and pollution with restrained consumptio