Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature

Qudsia Kalsoom; Sibte Hasan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_70-1

Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Abstract

Mythology and available archeological evidence reveal that in primitive times, humankind lived in harmony with Nature. The advent of enlightenment and subsequent revolution in science and technology promoted instrumental rationality. Consequent to this revolution, the capitalist system of economic production flourished. To develop capitalism to the optimum, consumerism was prescribed as the essential ideological superstructure for society. Capitalist production has been plundering natural resources for the last three centuries. Now, Nature has started retaliating and this is being manifested in climate change, chemical hazards, health risks, and a large number of avoidable deaths. The plundering of nature is the result of a change in humans’ relationship with Nature. For a sustainable future, harmony with Nature has to be re-learned.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future
Subtitle of host publication	Policies, Technologies and Education by 2050
Editors	Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Federica Doni, Amanda Lange Salvia
Publisher	Springer
Number of pages	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_70-1
Publication status	Published - Feb 2022

Keywords

Harmony with nature
Enlightenment
Consumerism
Anthropocene
Sustainability future
Environmental destruction

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_70-1

Cite this

@inbook{52f2872921504dbdb0b80dacdd6e9cb0,

title = "Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature",

abstract = "Mythology and available archeological evidence reveal that in primitive times, humankind lived in harmony with Nature. The advent of enlightenment and subsequent revolution in science and technology promoted instrumental rationality. Consequent to this revolution, the capitalist system of economic production flourished. To develop capitalism to the optimum, consumerism was prescribed as the essential ideological superstructure for society. Capitalist production has been plundering natural resources for the last three centuries. Now, Nature has started retaliating and this is being manifested in climate change, chemical hazards, health risks, and a large number of avoidable deaths. The plundering of nature is the result of a change in humans{\textquoteright} relationship with Nature. For a sustainable future, harmony with Nature has to be re-learned.",

keywords = "Harmony with nature, Enlightenment, Consumerism, Anthropocene, Sustainability future, Environmental destruction",

author = "Qudsia Kalsoom and Sibte Hasan",

year = "2022",

month = feb,

doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_70-1",

language = "English",

editor = "Filho, {Walter Leal} and Azul, {Anabela Marisa} and Federica Doni and Salvia, {Amanda Lange}",

booktitle = "Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future",

publisher = "Springer ",

}

Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature. / Kalsoom, Qudsia; Hasan, Sibte.
Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future: Policies, Technologies and Education by 2050. ed. / Walter Leal Filho; Anabela Marisa Azul; Federica Doni; Amanda Lange Salvia. Springer , 2022.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

TY - CHAP

T1 - Sustainability Futures

T2 - Rebuilding Relationships with Nature

AU - Kalsoom, Qudsia

AU - Hasan, Sibte

PY - 2022/2

Y1 - 2022/2

N2 - Mythology and available archeological evidence reveal that in primitive times, humankind lived in harmony with Nature. The advent of enlightenment and subsequent revolution in science and technology promoted instrumental rationality. Consequent to this revolution, the capitalist system of economic production flourished. To develop capitalism to the optimum, consumerism was prescribed as the essential ideological superstructure for society. Capitalist production has been plundering natural resources for the last three centuries. Now, Nature has started retaliating and this is being manifested in climate change, chemical hazards, health risks, and a large number of avoidable deaths. The plundering of nature is the result of a change in humans’ relationship with Nature. For a sustainable future, harmony with Nature has to be re-learned.

AB - Mythology and available archeological evidence reveal that in primitive times, humankind lived in harmony with Nature. The advent of enlightenment and subsequent revolution in science and technology promoted instrumental rationality. Consequent to this revolution, the capitalist system of economic production flourished. To develop capitalism to the optimum, consumerism was prescribed as the essential ideological superstructure for society. Capitalist production has been plundering natural resources for the last three centuries. Now, Nature has started retaliating and this is being manifested in climate change, chemical hazards, health risks, and a large number of avoidable deaths. The plundering of nature is the result of a change in humans’ relationship with Nature. For a sustainable future, harmony with Nature has to be re-learned.

KW - Harmony with nature

KW - Enlightenment

KW - Consumerism

KW - Anthropocene

KW - Sustainability future

KW - Environmental destruction

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_70-1

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-68074-9_70-1

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

BT - Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future

A2 - Filho, Walter Leal

A2 - Azul, Anabela Marisa

A2 - Doni, Federica

A2 - Salvia, Amanda Lange

PB - Springer

ER -

Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature

Abstract

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this