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Data peers into Greenland?s ice sheet

Data peers into Greenland?s ice sheet

by The Daily Eye Team February 2 2015, 12:43 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 50 secs

This year?s gathering at Davos discussed inequality more than ever before. The latest Oxfam report has focused us all on one figure: 1% of the world?s population is soon to hold as much wealth as the remaining 99%. I?m not one of those criticising the Davos crowd for existing: ?a club for the 1% to bond?, or ?an annual shindig of the top 0.0001% (approximately)? according to the New Statesman). My critique is that they are talking about the wrong thing. They should be talking about sustainable development, not economic growth. Are they not the same? Well, no.

Growth is sometimes good for some of the things we care about, such as poverty reduction, but not so good for others, for example, driving down infant malnutrition or generating good quality employment. And sometimes it is downright destructive, generating greenhouse gases that undermine growth in the future. In other words, the quality of growth matters as much as, if not more than, the quantity.

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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