The challenge of sustainability
This paper discusses sustainability in a world that has changed rapidly. The author suggests that ecological assumptions embedded in communism and capitalism are badly flawed, but the flaws were not apparent when there were fewer than a billion people on earth living at low technology levels. Sustaining the earth's vital signs is a challenge to our perception of time, and the numbers - population, environmental damage, oil consumption, waste disposal - are too large to comprehend easily. There is a global debate about what sustainability means. In fact the challenge of sustainability is 6 different challenges: overcoming the tendency to deny inconvenient realities; establishing accurate indicators of human and ecological health; questions about the kinds of technology necessary to make the transition to sustainability; education; the need for an emotional bond between man and nature; rebuilding the existing democratic institutions. 16 refs.
- OSTI ID:
- 6333473
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9208235-; CODEN: PHYTAJ
- Journal Information:
- Phytopathology (An International Journal); (United States), Vol. 83:1; Conference: 84. annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, Portland, OR (United States), 9 Aug 1992; ISSN 0031-949X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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