Planet Sustainability: The Choice Is Ours!
Source: https://impakter.com/planet-sustainability-choice-ours/
Author: George Lueddeke
Building on previous publications, George Lueddeke PhD, independent Global Lead of the international One Health for One Planet Education initiative, focuses on several key themes in this new article, including Democracy vs Autocracy, the Russia-Ukraine War, climate change and environmental degradation along with the global challenge to shift our priorities from human-centrism to eco-centrism. The main difference between now and then, he highlighted, was that unlike the “ancient Maya, Anasazi, and Easter Island” societies today, and the UN-2030 Sustainable Development Goals have underscored, we are all interconnected and interdependent: “what happens in any place on the globe can have profound repercussions everywhere.” Climate change, nuclear weapons, pandemics, and rogue artificial intelligence stand out as key existential threats facing us, prompting the urgency of addressing root causes and mitigating these before we do reach‘a point of no return.’ As the WWF cautioned in a previous Living Planet Report (2014), “These are the living forms that constitute the fabric of the ecosystems which sustain life on earth and the barometer of what we are doing to our planet, our only home.”