TY - JOUR
AU1 - Perry, John
AB - A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: CATASTROPHE OR CORNUCOPIA; CRUSADE OR CHALLENGE? * Editorial Review Essay Michael Grubb, Matthias Koch, Abby Munson, Francis Sullivan, and Koy Thom- son, The Earth Summit Agreements: A Guide and Assessment, The Royal Insti- tute of International Affairs. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 177 pp., 1993. Kai N. Lee, Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment, Island Press, Washington, DC, 243 pp., 1993. In the torrent of paper that flows across my desk these days, the word 'sustain- ability' occurs with increasing frequency. It's a nice, comfortable sort of word that Benjamin Franklin would have liked: Preserve capital, match expenditures and income, and you'll be all right. But is it a meaningful slogan for a large race on a small planet? Does it lead us to any policies and actions that other slogans would hide from us? Is 'sustainable' just another one out of the cloud of gnat-like buzz- words that form the ever-cheapening currency of the contemporary marketplace of ideas? Is 'sustainability' a trivial tautology, destined to enjoy a Warholian 15 minutes in the spotlight? Or is the word a profound defining concept that will shape the future of our species on this planet? 
TI - A sustainable future: catastrophe or cornucopia; crusade or challenge?
JF - Climatic Change
DO - 10.1007/BF01091864
DA - 2005-01-19
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/a-sustainable-future-catastrophe-or-cornucopia-crusade-or-challenge-DpA500fbLu
SP - 259
EP - 263
VL - 29
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -