A Call to Action

“Treating the world as if we intended to stay”, to quote Crispin Tickell, neatly summarises the growing recognition that we need to respond to the threats of climate change, over-population, and unsustainable exploitation of the planets resources. Can we, as the most advanced society ever to live on earth, manufacture a ‘soft landing’ in the face of these challenges?

Authors Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor think so. In their hopeful book, The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation, the authors set...