Abstract
In recent decades, an increasing number of disturbing trends have prompted many scientists and policy analysts to suggest that, as a species, we may be on the verge of a major transition or turning point. Persistent negative trends in resource availability, biodiversity, environmental quality and human well-being indicate that the current global development model may be damaging Earth’s essential systems and processes beyond recovery. Environmental law, as it exists in most countries, has not succeeded in controlling the impacts and effects of this development model. A jurisprudence of sustainability is necessary, based on a set of principles that will ensure a more proactive, scientifically-based, integrated, communal and transparent approach to development regulation.
Highlights
Over the millennia of human existence, mankind has experienced several major turning points involving technology and culture
An increasing number of disturbing trends have prompted many scientists and policy analysts to suggest that, as a species, we may be on the verge of a major transition or turning point
An increasing number of disturbing trends have prompted many scientists and policy analysts to suggest that, as a species, we may be on the verge of another major transition or turning point, one that could be more difficult than those that have preceded it, and perhaps just as inevitable
Summary
Over the millennia of human existence, mankind has experienced several major turning points involving technology and culture. Our transitions into the Age of Fire, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Industrial Revolution and the Atomic Age represent only a few of these turning points, but each has had profound effects on human cultures and economies, the ways we live our lives and the ways in which we interact with each other. An increasing number of disturbing trends have prompted many scientists and policy analysts to suggest that, as a species, we may be on the verge of another major transition or turning point, one that could be more difficult than those that have preceded it, and perhaps just as inevitable. The accompanying transition being proposed is not directly driven by technology but by population growth and the effects of a development model that has failed to recognize the limits and boundaries associated with life on a finite planet
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