Chandran Nair

Today Radio New Zealand rebroadcast an interview with Chandran Nair, available HERE.

His views, call for a rethinking of consumption and western ideas of 'democracy', and call for constraint in a world that does not have the resources to allow for western models of consumption while providing for the rights of all to healthy food, water, shelter and medicine, without resprssion and exploitation. They provide a challenge to a western-centric view of the world

Chandan Nair: Constraining Consumption

In this talk economist Chandran Nair argues that the Western model of consumption-led economic growth cannot be replicated in Asia with global resources under increased pressure.

Listen to the full audio: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/constraining-consumption

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Interview with Chandran Nair

Consumption and Asia:

Asia' s role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet

Chandra Nair is the founder of Consumption and Asia and CEO of independent, pan-Asian think tank The Global Institute for Tomorrow, and author of Consumptionomics: Asia's Role in Reshaping Capitalism and Saving the Planet

His main thesis is that if Asia consumes resources at the rate of the rich countries then the planet has no future. He provides an Asian perpective of things to counter the American view of the world.