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Corporations and sustainable development: the latest fashion or a real commitment?

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François Ewald
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François Ewald
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In the debate over sustainable development, it would appear the aim is not so much to last or continue, but rather to "invent a new departure". That is, to go beyond mere crisis solving and operate a mutation. Do you think industry can radically change its goals, its ways, its management, its production?

SD need not be opposed to industrial practices. We are miles away from revolutionary logic. SD offers a conceptual framework integrating a variety of factors: the short and long term, the financial and social dimensions, technology and safety - for consumers, for generations to come. But it's nothing new. 
It is not an ecological version of Marxism, but a quest for equilibrium, a new philosophy of solidarity.



In the debate over sustainable development, it would appear the aim is not so much to last or continue, but rather to "invent a new departure". That is, to go beyond mere crisis solving and operate a mutation. Do you think industry can radically change its goals, its ways, its management, its production?
If the common goal aims at qualitative development as opposed to quantitative growth, how to evaluate - and who is to judge - if a firm contributes to more well-being?
Can we rely entirely on the sense of responsibility as expressed by industry?
Is SD an "in" concept, a necessary mutation, improvements to be invented, a world vision, a technocratic creation, a new consciousness, history in progress, a challenge for the XXIst century, a point in a cycle... or something else?

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