Competing Visions of Sustainability: Scarcity or Abundance?
In this essay I explore how assumptions of nature’s Scarcity and Abundance underlie our visions of sustainability, and our prescriptions for action.
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Why We Need Visions of a Sustainable and Desirable World
There is a tendency in thinking about the future to simply extrapolate from past trends.
The Poisoned Chalice: Genetic Heritage, Future Demise
During the Pleistocene evolution favored those humans who left the most descendants so our evolved instincts encourage us to procreate, seek status and consume resources. Now sustainability is an existential issue and these instincts and our invention of technology are threatening our future.