Resilience, Adaptation, Sustainability: What Do We Now Mean By 'Future Progress'?

Around 1970 the planet and our occupation of it was pretty much a situation of balance ; the biospheric absorptive and recycling capacity coping with resource uptake and waste discard. Since then a doubled human mass and carbon gas overload has spawned the greenhouse effect that has activated ice field melt, Savannah extension, rainforest depletion, waste accumulation and species extinction. Resilience is a prevent-and-adapt advisory. It evokes limits for the growth-on-growth ideology and print money process. It provokes a births-death equilibrium, reduced fossil carbon consumption, rainforest restoration and waste recycling. It is about future-proofing the next generation.

• | Author: Robert Riddell
• | Publisher: Robert Riddell
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0473292459
• | ISBN-13: 9780473292454