Environmentally Speaking
Welcome to Environmentally Speaking. The environment is everything, literally, and on this podcast, no environmental topic is off-limits. We are living in unprecedented times. Times of threats to our environment, our health, and our freedom. Environmental degradation has resulted in the loss of livelihoods, lives, cultures, knowledges, and heritages. We are in the midst of a global-scale environmental crisis…climate change. What are our leaders doing to fight against this? What are you doing to fight against this? For our returning listeners, we have rebranded. So you would have been with us from what is now Season 1, CovidChat, where we discussed the multidimensional impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thank you for sticking with us. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @Ourfootprintja. Visit our website www.ourfootprintja.org.
Environmentally Speaking
S1.5 Can Society Recover? Economic Sustainability in the age of Covid-19
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Mario Christie; Eleanor Terrelonge; Dr. Delano DaSouza; David Mullings
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Season 1
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Episode 5
Governments need to focus on the general welfare of citizens and make investments in areas that unlock human potential, such as mental health services, reducing child poverty and homelessness, promoting Indigenous rights, fighting climate change, and expanding opportunities. "Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success," Ardern (New Zealand Prime Minister said. "It is a failure."
This episode of #CovidChat looks at the economic realities of Caribbean nations in the wake of Covid-19. It Assess the potential for significant growth as we look to reopen economies and how we can incorporate stronger frameworks for sustainability in doing business to ensure access to opportunities of all citizens.