We are constantly bombarded by all things ‘environmental’ these days, but we must take a step back and ask the hard intellectual questions, define our goals and understand our past to progress on an appropriate path.

Where do we separate the wheat from the chaff? How do we define sustainable development, and is it really compatible with the current economic system? Is climate change reversible or even mitigatable? Can we act as environmentally responsible individuals or is it impossible with the vast momentum of a consumption-oriented society?

The hope here is to spark some insight into the social, philosophical and perhaps even ethical basis for our modern economic trends and how they relate to our environmental interactions and long-term global standard of living.