Update: Sustainability management

From the archives. It's an old screenshot, not too old. I can't find the date or original link.

In February, I posted this, showcasing some of the work I did in my last five years in academic, emphasizing the need to define and operationalize 'sustainability' in broad terms, including economic terms, not not just in ecological terms, while also pointing out the gross misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the state of the world before the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent prosperity, back when life expectancy was low, infant mortality was very high, pandemics and other natural infections were regular, devastating occurrences, and natural disasters were much deadlier than than are today, when humans have found ways to tame nature, without significantly impacting the climate and while taking billions of people out of poverty. See these earlier, 'preview' posts, from January 2021 and these from April 2020 and February 2020.

Below is a slightly updated version of a January 2021 draft of the first chapter of my "Managing sustainable development" manuscript. Macmillan offered me a contract to publish the final book but the remaining work plus the onerous terms they offered led me to keep this out of publication and as a digital, personal keepsake, one that I find occasion to review, if only to remind myself of just how well off we truly are and just how dangerously wrong many of the eco-warriors are.

SM 01 Prospering in a global hypereconomy Nov 2021.docx

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