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Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon Porritt is chair of the Sustainable Development Commission in the United Kingdom and programme director of Forum for the Future.

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'As if the world matters': reconciling sustainable development and capitalism

The environmental movement has won the argument for change, but it needs a politics that goes with the grain of people’s lives and interests, says Jonathon Porritt.

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