Saturday, October 13, 2012

State of the Earth: Still Seeking Plan A for Sustainability

Scientific American: The state of the planet is grim, whether that assessment is undertaken from the perspective of economic development, social justice or the global environment. What's known as sustainable development—a bid to capture all three of those efforts in one effort and phrase—has hardly advanced since it was first used in the 1980s and the world is hardly closer to eradicating extreme poverty, respecting the dignity and rights of all peoples or resolving environmental challenges, whether climate change or...

URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=planet-seeks-plan-for-sustainability
Enclosure: http://stateoftheplanet.org/

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