December 2012 – If I could persuade you of one thing, it should be this: the world is small and fragile, and humanity is huge, dangerous and powerful. This is a total reversal of the biblical perspective on humanity, and the way in which man has thought during most of his presence on Earth. But this is the perspective we need to take if we’re to be sure that sustainability emerges or, at least, that the world as we know it survives for a couple of hundred more years.
After four decades of campaigning for sustainability, world-famous economist Professor Jorgen Randers has ‘gazed into the crystal ball’ to review the effectiveness of his life’s work, and to predict what the next forty years will bring. In this article, he presents the conclusions he reached in his new book.
