Sustainable development is not a subset of development; it is development (in a modern world of resource limits).
But underneath this annual ritual, plates are shifting and fashion retailers are increasingly aware that they must overhaul their business models to adapt to a world of resource scarcity.
"We're simply in a world of limited resources, and those resources are in Iraq," the former official added.
In Swaziland, one of the countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world, availability of resources is not the issue.
And, in a world of limited resources, every determination of where we use our resources is also an implicit decision not to use them elsewhere.
In a world of limited resources, which is the world we live in, how resources are used is an ethical question.
But in a world of finite resources, it remains to be seen where America Online's financial and human resources will be focused.
In a world of finite resources, the provision of ART in low-income countries must come at the expense of prevention (if resources were not finite, of course, such tragic choices would not need to be made).
In a world of limited resources, every choice has an opportunity cost — we forgo the value of that on which the resource would otherwise have been spent.
Not in a world of limited resources.
