Sustainable retreat

Sustainable retreat

Sustainable retreat is a concept developed by independent research scientist Dr. James Lovelock, who is well-known in ecological circles for developing the Gaia theory, in order to define the necessary changes to human settlement and dwelling at the global scale with the purpose of adapting to global warming and preventing its expected negative consequences on humans as portrayed in his latest book published in 2006 [Lovelock, James (2006). The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity. Santa Barbara (California): Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9914-4.] .

Lovelock thinks the time is past for sustainable development, and that we have come to a time when development is no longer sustainable. Therefore we need to retreat. Lovelock in an interview with Rolling Stone states the following in order to explain the concept [Goodell, Jeff. (2007). "The Prophet of Climate Change: James Lovelock". "Rolling Stone". Available from the WWW: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16956300/the_prophet_of_climate_change_james_lovelock. (This quotation is from the fourth page of the article.)] :

:"To Lovelock, the whole idea of sustainable development is wrongheaded: "We should be thinking about sustainable retreat.

:"Retreat, in his view, means it's time to start talking about changing where we live and how we get our food; about making plans for the migration of millions of people from low-lying regions like Bangladesh into Europe; about admitting that New Orleans is a goner and moving the people to cities better positioned for the future. Most of all, he says, it's about everybody "absolutely doing their utmost to sustain civilization, so that it doesn't degenerate into Dark Ages, with warlords running things, which is a real danger. We could lose everything that way."

It follows that As opposed to the concept of sustainable development which emphasizes a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment the concept of sustainable retreat emphasized a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs with lower levels and/or less environmentaly harmful types of resources.

References

ee also

*Ecological debt
*Ecological deficit
*Greenhouse debt


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