The Way Forward: Survival 2100

William E. Rees

Chapter 26 in Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders, 2014, pp 191-200 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: It is not as if we are unaware of the problem. Symptoms were already so persistent two decades ago that a proclamation by many of the world's top scientists warned that “a great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.”2 This assertion was echoed a dozen years later by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment's no less urgent warning that “human activity is putting such a strain on the natural functions of the Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted.”3…

Keywords: Envisioning; Sustainable Future; Desirable Future; Positive Future; Future History; Scenarios; World Views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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