Sustainability demands nothing less than a reappraisal of capitalism. This was a view put forward earlier in the year not by a Marxist economist but by Ian Cheshire, chief executive of one of the UK's largest companies - DIY retailer Kingfisher. "Infinite high resource intensity growth is simply not possible," he wrote in an article for the Guardian. The idea was that companies must not only make efficiency gains but also radically redesign business models.
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