Sustainability: All That Matters, by award-winning writer Chris Goodall, argues that building a sustainable society is the greatest challenge that the world has ever faced. The high living standards of current generations have been partly achieved by borrowing from the future and ignoring the impacts on the people yet to come.
Goodall calculates the dimensions of the problem looking into the concerns about the depletion of natural resources, the scarcity of arable land and what this means for our meat consumption, and the threat climate change poses to future inhabitants of the planet. Controversially, he suggests that economic growth will help us build a more sustainable world, drawing together evidence that richer societies have now reached a peak in the consumption of material.
This startling and informative book will appeal to students, specialists and general readers alike, giving a challenging and thought-provoking introduction to sustainability - and what matters most about it.