The Blind Guardians of Ignorance: Covid-19, Sustainability, and Our Vulnerable Future: a Handbook for Change Leaders, Young and Old

The Covid-19 pandemic is not the last surprise that awaits present generations. In 2020 people across the globe have realized that governments have failed to prepare for important challenges, even highly probable ones predicted by experts for decades. Greta Thunberg has scolded world leaders for not...

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1. Verfasser: Larsson, Mats (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Luton, Bedfordshire Imprint Academic 2020
Ausgabe:2nd ed
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Zusammenfassung:The Covid-19 pandemic is not the last surprise that awaits present generations. In 2020 people across the globe have realized that governments have failed to prepare for important challenges, even highly probable ones predicted by experts for decades. Greta Thunberg has scolded world leaders for not doing more to stop global warming. Greta and other experts seem to believe that there are plans for the transformation to sustainability waiting in the drawers of heads of state to become implemented, but there are no such plans. Sustainability experts have focused on climate change -- nobody has developed the large-scale solutions that Greta asks for. Instead, politicians, business leaders, and sustainability experts have assumed that market forces will drive the transformation to e-mobility, the circular economy, and a sustainable society. In fact, very little has been done to develop the large-scale systems that are needed to replace the present production and distribution systems of ...
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ISBN:9781788360531

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