Abstract:
Sustainable Development requires that our economic and business systems must operate in a way that sustains the earth’s ecosystems for future generations. Most businesses continue to grow consumption, resource usage, emissions, waste and pollution from levels that are already above ecologically sustainable levels. Pressure for unsustainable economic growth comes from an increasingly powerful corporate sector, which is locked into a system that requires continually increasing revenues and profits usually achieved through increased resource use and increased pollution and waste. Australian society does not know whether it is meeting the stakeholder needs of future generations and the environment. An Integral Approach to Sustainable Development is proposed to address the extremely complex societal change problem posed by moving to Ecologically Sustainable Development.
