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Perhaps we are reaching a tipping point – where enough people on the planet believe that the problem is serious enough to join together to make change possible. American sensibilities have been shaped by the (seemingly) limitless continent full of vast resources that it is our “destiny” to enjoy. As the West is running out of water and gasoline prices are soaring, it’s starting to come home to us that we, too, must think about creating a sustainable economy. This economy must be grounded in the environmental realities of finite resources and the costs of environmental degradation. We’ve been running our economy as if the future will never arrive; as if there is no downside to continuous expansion; as if there are no limits to the resources available to us. We’ve assumed that environmental damage has no long-range consequences on the health of our citizenry, or upon our economy. The long-deferred bill is coming due as global population growth and diminishing resources create higher prices and a greater potential for regional and global conflicts. The recommended books in this section take a hard look at the global economic realities of our current situation, and offer a variety of methods to address the challenge of creating a new paradigm for growth, one founded on sustainability of resources and protecting our environment for generations to come. David Yarian, Ph.D.
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