global warming

GREEN ROUNDUP - “The Future Lies Ahead”

Peter Corning

October 21, 2021

For a species that literally owes its remarkable evolutionary success over time to its social behavior and its many innovations (we have rightly been called “The Self-Made Man” by the anthropologist Jonathan Kingdon), we have been very slow to recognize, much less respond to what can fairly be called an existential survival crisis. Some 99 percent of all the species that have ever evolved are now extinct. We may soon join them. Unless…

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World Views

A Strategic Plan for the Year 3000? Surely, You’re Joking!

Peter Corning

September 11, 2020

The first five million years of our evolution went very well, overall. The next 980 years could be a problem.

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World Views

“Sustainable Development”: How’s It Going?

Peter Corning

July 30, 2019

The U.N.’s original definition of the term has been corrupted, and the current U.N. iteration (in a set of 17 Development Goals) is an overreach. Either way it’s failing. What is to be done? This currently fashionable concept first arose in the 1980s. A U.N. report stressed that it should be about basic needs. Our current emphasis on “growth” and increased “wealth” is unsustainable. I believe we must return to the original 1987 U.N. definition, which focused on our basic needs, and make it a global priority going forward.