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Emails true or not, let’s step beyond climategate.

Beyond the obfuscations.

Here is the reality check:

Achieving global sustainability and sustainable development is about more than “going green” and mitigating climate change. A successful transition toward a sustainable global future is a complex multi-variable problem that requires both innovation in science and technology, adaptive governance and broad-based changes in human behavior. It refers to the task of meeting basic human needs worldwide while preserving the life supporting ecosystems of the planet at the same time. There remains little doubt that we are currently failing at both. In general terms, an improvement in coupled social-ecological systems, that is, human–nature interactions and human-human relationships across global societies is necessary.

There will soon be 9 billion people here, far exceeding the capacity of the Earth’s natural resources to sustain everyone and, very likely, pushing ecosystems away from current life supporting configurations.    

As Tariq Banuri has suggested, let’s consider our home Earthland. We only have one.

EJ Wensing

USVI

ejwensing@ecosphere.net