As the world casts its eyes toward the ongoing COP28 conference in Dubai, we are faced with a stark reality: Our global climate efforts are falling critically short of the mark.
Traditional approaches to problem solving are clearly inadequate and many of our systems ¡ª built for a bygone era ¡ª are not just failing to address today¡¯s challenges, but are often exacerbating them. The climate crisis, along with other complex social and environmental issues such as plastic and chemical waste, inequality, and aging and shrinking populations demand a fundamental rethink of how we live within our societal and planetary boundaries.
This has been conceptualized by economist , a visual framework for sustainable development consisting of an inner and outer circle: The first represents the social foundation ¡°needed to ensure that no one falls short on life¡¯s essentials¡± and the second is the ecological ceiling that we must respect to ¡°not overshoot our pressure on Earth¡¯s life-supporting system.¡±
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