ID - 131906434 TI - The path to a sustainable civilisation : technological, socioeconomic and political change AU - Diesendorf, Mark. AU - Taylor, Rod PY - 2023 SN - 9789819906635 9789819906628 9789819906642 PB - Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Nature protection KW - General ecology and biosociology KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Environmental planning KW - Social geography KW - environment KW - ruimtelijke ordening KW - milieubeleid KW - natuureducatie KW - natuurbescherming KW - milieutechnologie KW - Sustainability. KW - Sustainable development. KW - Environmental sciences—Social aspects. KW - Human geography. KW - Environment. KW - Environmental policy. KW - Environmental education. KW - Environmental Social Sciences. KW - Human Geography. KW - Environmental Sciences. KW - Environmental Policy. KW - Environmental and Sustainability Education. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131906434 AB - The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively. We have created a god called ‘the market’ and allowed our most important decisions to be made by this imaginary entity, which is in fact a human system controlled by vested interests. The result has been the exploitation of our life support system, our planet, and most of its inhabitants, to the point of collapse. This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business, weaken the power of vested interests and strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate, energy, natural resources and social justice, in order to transition to a truly sustainable civilisation. ER -