A vision for a sustainable future in three parts.
I am, at heart, an optimist, but my work and reading bring me up against a lot of end-is-nigh negativity that the logical , left part of my brain can't deny. I've thus been thinking of writing about all manner of issues facing the world, such as how decarbonising our current economy is a pipe dream on technical, rather than economic or ideological grounds. I think it's an interesting take on a topic dominated, on one hand, by naïve environmentalists who don't know how the world works and, on the other, by naïve politicians and talking heads in certain sections of the media... who don't know how the world works.
But there are others who have said it better than me, so I will keep that part brief and refer you to superior minds to my own. Instead, rather than being another voice of doom, I'm harnessing my optimistic right brain, and pondering what a sustainable future might actually look like, how we can get there, and what we should be doing now to set up for it.
This short series consists of:
What the world could look like in 100 years,
Things we can do in the urban development space, today, to give us a shot at such a future.
These aren’t easy questions, but they’re the most important ones we can ask. If you’re interested in discussing how to make a sustainable future real, in policy, business, or community, I’d welcome the chance to connect.
