The corporate-led obsession with "economic growth"

To: letters@independent.co.uk

Dear Sir,
Few rational readers would disagree with any of your proposed measures ('Climate change: 10 ways to save the world', 1 November). But what about the elephant in the room: the corporate-led obsession with "economic growth"? If we factor in the negative impacts of increasing global poverty, disease and inequality; environmental degradation and climate-related disasters; and imperialistic wars waged for strategic dominance and access to natural resources and markets, the global economy has probably been in free-fall for decades. We need to shift to a new participatory and equitable system of economics that values people and planet.

yours faithfully,
David Cromwell