Sustainable development means using our unlimited mental resources, not our limited natural resources. If this is true, as I believe it to be, then we need to develop constructive ways to unleash these phenomenal mental resources, and quickly. Currently, we waste human potential as wantonly and comprehensively as we lay waste to our environmental potential, and this is no surprise, as both actions are directly related. We need to mobilize our efforts toward developing the potential of all humans in order to live productively in a convivial manner within environmental limits. Failure to do so will end our ability to approach anything near the just and sustainable futures we are capable of.This caught my eye as I'm still working my way through the Ingenuity Gap and this notion of unleashing mental resources for me links to the idea of being able to harness humanity's ingenuity to meet the tremendous environmental and social challenges we face.
Julian Agyeman seems to be a fascinating individual and this will probably send me off on another tangent some day - his blog can be found here.
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