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Since the report to The Club of Rome Limits of Growth was published some 30 years ago, the question is still open which approach we must take with our planet. Three factors will have the most influence on the global development of the environment: demographic and climate development and the potential for innovation. The concept of sustainability requires long-term thinking in order to use natural resources in such a way that future generations have the same opportunities we do. This message is confirmed in this review by the members of the Club of Rome's European Forum on Sustainability, which was founded in autumn 2002 in Vienna by the European Support Centre of the Club of Rome in co-operation with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour and in partnership with the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna, together with high-level experts and scientists. An immediate and extensive global course correction across the board would, however, be required. Thus far in fact, the price paid for the success of globalisation has been very high - environmental degradation and a global social split. This review presents as potential solutions a new economic model, an international treaty between the North and the South, a fundamental right to food and the principles of a sustainable retirement reform.
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Kristen Stork
reviewed Sustainability creates new prosperity on June 05, 2020
Sustainability creates new prosperity
Originally written October 15, 2007
If ever there was a book to inform on the environmental crises at hand, it's this one.
Yale University dean and professor James Gustave Speth presents a book chock full of facts and statistics showing the slow decline to our current situation with global warming and other environmental dangers the world is currently facing. He extensively informs on pollution, forest preservation, animal extinction, anticipated "healing" of the ozone layer, subtle melting of Arctic lands, the known Montreal and Kyoto Protocols (Wikipedia them) and so much more.
And Speth did his research, too. Part one alone contains 175 footnotes, referencing a section of notes in the back of the book containing more than 360 sources used for information to compile the book. (Talk about a term paper from hell!) Of course, it helps that Speth works at Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and was once president of the World Resources Institute. And that's not even mentioning his winning of Japan's Blue Planet Prize for his efforts with global warming. Safe to say, he knows more about the topic than I do.
And this isn't just a 'history-of'...it's also a 'how-to', showing the ways the largest government to a single person can make a difference in the climate and environment. He even provides a nice roster of resources for those who didn't quite get enough of the book.
Mean for green? Then read some Red.
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