hitherto the creation of wealth and the measure of well-being have been based largely on consumption and so industry has been encouraged to pay little attention to the real value of raw materials used even if their price is low or to the real cost of waste produced
how does your commission intend to ensure that growth in future will be of a different nature and that we will not find ourselves in a situation where after another twenty years of growth we have a planet unable to sustain what we are doing and a society unable to afford the real costs of living in such a way
