He is a Professor of Law and Director, New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law, University of Auckland; Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental
\n Law Ethics Specialist Group.<\/p>\n
With all the mounting ecological challenges, climate change, melting tundra, ocean acidification etc, that face us today, these are finally being acknowledged As an extension of the Chicago school in the 1970\u2019s and then policies by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher we are left with posing the question - who That economics having been the main and in many ways the only fundamental agenda over the last 35 - 40 years that we (even ordinary NZers) are realising We have been going backwards over this time especially as we have added another three and half billion souls to the planetary population. In doing so - It\u2019s all happening far too quickly and our biosphere can not adapt fast enough in the time available. Thus, with multiple tipping points being reached Today, business people in general when we sit them down and talk \u2018one on one\u2019 they will agree that the commercial sector are grabbing and extracting voraciously Today the concept of sustainability has so often been distorted, co-opted, and even trivialized by being used without the \u2018ecological context\u2019 that gives What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth or competitive advantage, but the entire web of life on which our long-term survival The first step in this endeavor, naturally, must be to understand how nature sustains life. It turns out that this involves a whole new conception of life.
\n as the logical symptoms of a disease and Klaus reiterates this - a disease that is permeating our society<\/a> as a result of economics gone mad.<\/p>\n
\n will look after the planetary environment?<\/p>\n
\n we are now in deeper trouble. That without factoring urgent ecological solutions and taking action - we are to experience environmental blow-back of
\n increasing proportions.<\/p>\n
\n the web of life \u2018Nature\u2019 - that embraces and integrates all the ecosystems that are layered over each other from the micro to the macro have been put
\n under unprecedented stress. All due to the increase in mans dominating nature especially around deforestation and pollution at all levels - that has
\n been so overwhelming that our planet\u2019s biota, natural systems and feedback loops are unable to cope with the rapid changes that are upon us. <\/p>\n
\n the possibility of cascading problems is an extreme urgency that has to be addressed. Biosphere collapse has to be avoided! <\/p>\n
\n from the earth, however when they go back to their corporation they cannot or are unable to initiate change. The main reason being that the business
\n world in general has failed themselves by still being \u2018ecological illiterate.\u2019 This being predominant in the extreme in the global political arena
\n as well.<\/p>\n
\n it its proper meaning. So, it is worthwhile to reflect about what \u201csustainability\" really means.<\/p>\n
\n depends. In other words, a sustainable community is designed in such a way that its ways of life, businesses, economy, physical structures, and technologies
\n do not interfere with nature\u2019s inherent ability to sustain life. It may be also likened to\u2018durable prosperity\u2019 - that nature will last ad infinitum.<\/p>\n
\n Indeed, such a new conception of life has emerged over the last 30 years. <\/p>\n