Happy planet

• Autores: Robert Adler
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2976, 2014, págs. 30-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The current economic system has lifted billions of people and entire nations out of poverty, and provides most people in the developed world with a standard of living that royalty couldn't dream of a century or two ago. The problem is that its very success--the intensity with which it motivates and finances the exploitation of nature, the multitudes who consume the cornucopia of goods and services it pours out, and the system's built-in drive for continual growth--is sending us headlong past critical natural boundaries. The list is long and familiar: too much carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere and acidifying the Ocean; too much land being cleared, leading to deforestation and desertification; overfishing causing crashes in one stock after another; and habitat destruction reducing biodiversity so drastically that some consider a sixth mass extinction to be under way. Living within the limits of what nature can provide and process is the alternative. Here, Adler discusses building a sustainable world.