The era of measuring human progress solely through Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is failing humanity and the Earth. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a stark warning: our current obsession with GDP ignores the environmental destruction and social inequities baked into modern development. By prioritizing short-term growth over ecological health, governments are effectively treating the plunder of nature as “wealth creation” while ignoring the catastrophic costs of the climate crisis.
Current development indices are blind to the depletion of our forests, the pollution of our oceans, and the rising carbon emissions that threaten global stability. Guterres argues that we need a “New Social Contract” and a shift toward metrics that value sustainability, well-being, and climate resilience. To save our future, we must stop sacrificing the natural world at the altar of indefinite economic growth and instead build an economy that operates within our planet’s boundaries.
🔗 Source: https://impakter.com/we-must-move-past-gdp-un-chief-says/
