By Independent.co.uk — 2006
Each nation must find the best use of its resources to sustain civilisation for as long as they can.
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A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.
This equating of money with wealth and wealth with wellbeing is misplaced on multiple counts. Money does not reflect nature’s wealth or people’s wealth, and it definitely fails to measure the wellbeing of society.
Forests were central to Tagore’s works, just as they have been for India’s creative expression through centuries, writes Vandana Shiva.
Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.