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problem is that fear without hope, guilt without celebration, and sin without redemption is a model that fails to inspire or motivate.12
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
tend to fragment agencies by problem, rather like mailbox pigeonholes, but the long emergency will require managing complex systems over long time periods.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Conversations involve respectful listening—not just waiting to talk—as
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Global Freshwater Use.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
the first rule for renewable-resource stocks is that extraction rates must not exceed regeneration rates,
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
11 social priorities were raised in over half of them: deprivations in food, water, health care, income, education, energy, jobs, voice, gender equality, social equity, and resilience to shocks.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
author Gus Speth, a pivotal figure in the U.S. environmental movement, makes the same point in his clarion call to the environmental community to abandon its safe but largely ineffective reliance on facts, studies, and data to drive political change and social transformation.10
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
which he means a “self-governing community of citizens who are united less by homogeneous