{"id":73654,"date":"2021-08-07T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/?p=73654"},"modified":"2021-08-05T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T08:12:20","slug":"a-better-planet-40-big-ideas-for-a-sustainable-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sonnenseite.com\/en\/tips\/a-better-planet-40-big-ideas-for-a-sustainable-future\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagine – just imagine – that someone asked you: \u201cWhat could be the most important idea to ensure a sustainable future?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what Daniel Esty, a professor of law at Yale University, asked 53
colleagues. The final outcome is this book. In the introduction, the editor starts from a rather pessimistic position. While America has made great strides in the environmental realm in past decades, environmental protection in recent years has become an arena for bitter partisan battles. Although some progress has been made in addressing the most grievous environmental damages, the pace of progress has been drasti\u0002cally slowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esty asked an extraordinary collection of thought leaders, environmental activists, and graduate student – spanning a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, issue expertise, and political beliefs – to present their ideas for reigniting environmental progress. The 40 essays in this volume provide a menu of innovative suggestions on which the world might build over the next decades in reimagining the response to pollution, land use, natural resources, and energy challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Esty arranged the book in five parts. Part One is \u201cSustaining Humans and Nature as One.\u201d There are two different views on this question. The reigning view is a despairingly stark one: It sees humankind existing apart from nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An alternative inspires hope by imagining the possibility of humankind (the social) and nature (the ecological) existing together, entwined as a \u201csocioecological system,\u201d in which each part requires the other for its existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar idea is presented in the essay \u201cHabitable Earth,\u201d on protecting biodiversity through natural systems. Scientists and diplomats have begun to set targets for biodiversity protection. The parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity suggest that 30 percent of the terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the planet should be put under strict protec\u0002tion by 2030 – known as the \u201c30 by 30 target.\u201d
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