Sublime

In 2019, a cross-sector team of scholars, activists, and system-designers met to explore strategies for “Navigating the Great Unraveling.”11 They projected out best- and worst-case scenarios for the year 2040 across four key drivers: available energy, degree of climate change, level of economic activity, and amount of accessible freshwater. For cli

realised from my research’, Baden later reflected, ‘that we desperately need cultural offerings with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like, to inspire hope and positive change.’9

The LESS approach to sustainability: Individuals should critically examine what they eat, how they use energy and water, how much garbage they produce, and how they dispose of it. The approach should focus on LESS: less meat, less energy, less water, less garbage.

Complete decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 is now conceivable only at the cost of unthinkable global economic retreat, or as a result of extraordinarily rapid transformations relying on near-miraculous technical advances. But who is going, willingly, to engineer the former while we are still lacking any convincing, practical, affordable

The most far-reaching of these developments follow the ecological principle that waste equals food: that all by-products from manufacturing or agriculture become inputs into some other production process. Wastewater from bathing irrigates plants, which in turn help to heat and cool structures. It’s a closed-loop process.

Green urbanism and biophilic city design calls for walkable neighbourhoods and bicycle-friendly towns, alongside sustainable public transport.