Sustainability as a pathway to equality

Posted by in Equality, Sustainability

Thomas Friedman suggests in his article, “The First Law of Petropolitics”, that freedom and women’s rights are directly tied to the price of oil in oil dominated states in the developing world. His basic premise being that as leaders are have more money from the sale of their resources they are less beholden to the people and the motivation to seek power is much greater. If we follow this thought and take it one step further we see creating sustainable practices in business critical to bringing freedom and equality to…read more