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Scotland 2070 - Healthy | Wealthy | Wise
Hillary Sillitto, BSc 1976, Ian Godden, and Dorothy Godden
Scotland 2070 offers an ambitious vision for Scotland’s future – without the politics. “What sort of country do we want our grandchildren to be living in?”
In this book we look beyond Covid-19, beyond oil, beyond Brexit, beyond the SNP, beyond the fearmongering, to a vision of a thriving, prosperous long-term future for Scotland. We explain the potential for Scotland’s natural resources, land, air and sea, beyond oil. We point out Scotland’s growing locational advantages as the Arctic ice melts. We remind ourselves of our talent and prowess in both financial services and science and engineering. We draw attention to the highly successful Nordic countries around us in Scandinavia and beyond. And we show how small nations can succeed in this world of geographical giants.
The authors are Scots with no political allegiance. They offer an ambitious – but realistic – vision of what Scotland could achieve in 50 years’ time in this new world. They bring their wide international business experience in engineering, energy, management consultancy, property and healthcare, to bear on important unanswered questions about Scotland’s future.
“I enjoyed this book immensely, lots of hard facts but presented in a very readable way allowing the lay men and women amongst us to understand the authors’ vision, and visionaries they are!! Away from the political chit chat about Independence, Brexit etc… the author’s have presented a vision that is both achievable, tenable and environmentally sound. This book was very well paced and had the reader mesmerised at times. Clearly some very deep seated, well informed thinking went behind it!”
MusicManAl, review posted on Amazon.co.uk on 7th Jan, Verified Purchase.
ISBN: 978-1-84890-348-7
