THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
WHY CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
patterns matter
It is ironic that the shortage of humble face masks and personal protective equipment has highlighted critical fault lines in the supply chain and revealed that the core problem is that, in general, nations do not produce their own goods locally for local populations. BY LLEWELLYN VAN WYK, B.ARCH; MSC. (APPLIED), URBAN ANALYST
The Common City Manifesto by James McKay, 2020 “Each country has discovered further its fragility, reflected in the dependence on the rest of the world to satisfy the maintenance of the way of living, and at the same time, the isolation and loneliness when attempting to respond to a major exogenous shock.” — Viwanou Gnassounou, assistant secretary-general for sustainable economic development and trade, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
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