Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature

Sibte Hasan; Qudsia Kalsoom

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-04560-8_70

Sustainability Futures: Rebuilding Relationships with Nature

Sibte Hasan, Qudsia Kalsoom

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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
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	213-229
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031045608
ISBN (Print)	9783031045592
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04560-8_70
Publication status	Published - 29 Jul 2023

Keywords

Anthropocene
Consumerism
Enlightenment
Environmental destruction
Harmony with nature
Sustainability future

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Environmental Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

UN SDGs

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