Ending Our Consumer Addiction

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How can we end our intense consumer addiction and change our habits and values to be more sustainable? 

In this lecture Environment Professor Jacqueline McGlade will look at patterns of consumption and the concepts of sufficiency in communities across the world, linking them not only to poverty and wealth but also to ecosystem health. She will look at how we can achieve UN sustainable development goal 12, to 'ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns'.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-consumption-production/

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This event was on Tue, 14 Jan 2020

Professor Jacqueline McGlade

Professor Jacqueline McGlade

Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment

Professor Jacqueline McGlade was the Frank Jackson Foundation Professor of the Environment at Gresham College.

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