Exploring How Society Can Work Toward A Sustainable Future
This document advocates global sustainable development. It explores the dynamic changes needed to transition global human society toward a sustainable future. Any proposal for such an immense transformation of our political, economic, and technological infrastructures must answer the questions of why, how, and when. Here, we focus mostly on why, with some discussion on how, and answer when with one word: NOW!
Development on a Global Scale
We employ this focus because neither the public nor our policy‑makers are responding adequately to the worsening unsustainable conditions that are pushing the human ecosystem to the brink of a cascade collapse. We cannot blindly use the same business-as-usual approach to resolve this situation because that approach is the one that generated it!
By the same token, without a thorough recognition of this situation and a comprehensive, science-based understanding of the dynamics causing the deterioration, we will not learn how to efficiently pursue sustainable development on a global scale.
What Needs to Be Changed
Ironically, however, we do know what needs to be changed. We also have most of the knowledge, methods, and strategies to make the changes. But we still lack an integration of this combined knowledge, packaged and available to sufficiently raise public awareness, gain the commitment of governing bodies, and secure the global cooperation necessary to pursue global sustainable development.
This document explores the dynamic changes needed to transition human society toward a sustainable future for the generations that follow. As such, it inspires to reinforce the integration of the great quantity of other voices heard and not heard singing for Social Justice and Planetary Stability.
- Thomas Hopkins