Choosing A Sustainable Future: Participative Planning for Rural Counties
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Author
McGowan, Claire
Date
2004
Degree
Master of Arts in Earth Literacy
Abstract
As we enter a new millennium, humanity finds itself faced with challenges of
proportions never previously encountered by our ancestors. In the last 50 years human
population on planet Earth has grown from 2.5 billion to 6.1 billion. This means that
between 1950 and 2000, human population growth exceeded the total of the entire four
million years since we emerged as a distinct species.
Exponential population growth combined with widespread patterns of
overconsumption and waste in the industrialized nations has led us to staggering global
implications.