“Coming from an ‘empty’ world with abundant natural resources, the Industrial Revolution brought prosperity in the form of economic and population growth. At the same time, this growth—based on production processes dependent on fossil fuels and other natural resources—has created social and environmental challenges."
A succinct assessment of the path we’re on in the Principles of Sustainable Finance by Dirk Schoenmaker and Willem Schramade. Great read so far.
What will it take to make corporate profits and shareholder returns much less of a factor when measuring the performance, or ‘growth’, of businesses?