Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Local Futures has been calling for a radical revision of progress since neoliberal globalization took over in the mid 1980s.

This short video, although produced 30 years ago, is still very much relevant today. Listen to four leading thinkers and activists in the field of ecology and development discuss 'progress'.

Featuring:
- Edward Goldsmith, founder, publisher and co-editor of The Ecologist magazine;
- Martin Khor, Vice-President of the Third World Network and the Consumers' Association of Penang;
- Vandana Shiva, Co-ordinator of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy;
- Helena Norberg-Hodge, Founder and Director of Local Futures.

Directed by John Page, Creative Content Developer of Local Futures
Produced by Local Futures (previously known as International Society for Ecology and Culture) and Greensat Television, 1992

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