From Buddha To Bono Seeking Sustainability

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: JoJo Publishing
Publisher Place: Docklands, Vic
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 341 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The earth is 0.7 degrees Celsius warmer than before the Industrial Revolution. Temperatures will increase by 1.4 degrees to 5.8 degrees over the next 100 years. The world's population is six and a half billion and growing. How did we get into this mess? More importantly, how do we get out of it? Until now no one has put together the full environmental and ethical story facing Planet Earth, as Tor Hundloe has done. In "From Buddha to Bono" he has put squarely on the agenda the key matters which almost all including Al Gore are still dodging for fear of the heavy hand of the church and of conservative economists. And that is nothing less than the need to eventually reduce our global population; the need to recognize that our market economy does not have to grow forever to retain its vitality; and above all the need to get serious about linking the global economy to the global environment.Today we desperately seek solutions to climate change, water scarcity; pollution; and third world poverty. But in order to go forward...first we must go back...From Buddha to Bono: Seeking Sustainability traces the development of the three key disciplines underpinning modern environmental decision-making, otherwise known as sustainability science: ecology, economics and ethics. It illustrates how these disciplines, singularly and in concert, will need to be applied in the 21st century if true sustainability is to be achieved. It also explores the ideas of the great thinkers and activists who have helped put sustainability on the cultural and political map. Industry Reviews "This is a very special book. Until now no one has put together the full environmental and ethical story facing Planet Earth, as Tor Hundloe has done. In this book he has put squarely on the agenda the key matters which almost all - including Al Gore - are still dodging for fear of the heavy hand of the church and of conservative economists. And that is nothing less than the need to reduce our global population; the need to recognise that our market economy does not have to grow forever to retain its vitality; and above all the need to get serious about linking the global economy to the global environment. Environmental policies have failed us to date because this link is not made. As sure as night follows day, we will continue to fail environmentally if we do not reform our national and global economic systems. In essence, Hundloe has produced a book in the 21st century of which a latter-day Adam Smith would be proud of." - Professor Ross Fitzgerald, Australian historian, novelist, broadcaster, political commentator.

ISBN: 9780980369854