If you had to spend a dinner with the most influential people with a view to sustainability who would you like to sit next to and talk to all evening long? If you had to make an interview, who would be your target person?
Ulrich Grober is a journalist & philosopher and made as his latest book a "socio"-historic review starting at the "clerical" and "economical" roots of sustainability and about its development in the past 40 years. Grober shows in his book that the forerunners of "sustainability" in the past were always thinking way beyond their times.
Grober concludes that the word sustainability has enough gravity and elasticity to be around for a long time. Even though many reforms never happen in the way they were intended to nor should sustainability be reduced to the CO2 reduction issue (as is too often focused on).
http://www.amazon.de/Entdeckung-Nachhaltigkeit-Kulturgeschichte-eines-Begriffs/dp/3888976480
- Badges
- Science topic