Budget 2023 debate: Carrie Tan on a new model of progress
If Singapore’s people are its greatest resource, then protecting this resource and allowing it to thrive should be key to the national agenda, said MP Carrie Tan in Parliament on Thursday (Feb 23). She pointed out that economic growth and an ever-growing demand for increased productivity despite a rapidly ageing workforce and potentially zero growth in Singapore’s labour force are taking a toll on an entire generation of Singaporeans. Ms Tan urged Singapore to be a global change-maker by seriously considering “a different model of progress” and making it a reality - one that takes into account people’s well-being and respects the Earth’s limits. Her vision includes redesigning work and housing to optimise resources and encapsulate the principle of “reduce” in the ways we live and work, creating more community living formats, building a “swap and share” culture in place of consumption, and investing in permaculture and other regenerative nature-based solutions and research.
If Singapore’s people are its greatest resource, then protecting this resource and allowing it to thrive should be key to the national agenda, said MP Carrie Tan in Parliament on Thursday (Feb 23). She pointed out that economic growth and an ever-growing demand for increased productivity despite a rapidly ageing workforce and potentially zero growth in Singapore’s labour force are taking a toll on an entire generation of Singaporeans. Ms Tan urged Singapore to be a global change-maker by seriously considering “a different model of progress” and making it a reality - one that takes into account people’s well-being and respects the Earth’s limits. Her vision includes redesigning work and housing to optimise resources and encapsulate the principle of “reduce” in the ways we live and work, creating more community living formats, building a “swap and share” culture in place of consumption, and investing in permaculture and other regenerative nature-based solutions and research.
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