期刊名称:Brock Education : a Journal of Educational Research and Practice
印刷版ISSN:1183-1189
出版年度:2010
卷号:16
期号:1
页码:93-99
DOI:10.26522/brocked.v16i1.81
出版社:Brock University
摘要:It is hard not to become discouraged whenever an environmental “state of the planet” report is issued. Inevitably, we seem to be that much closer to an ill defined but much-discussed “ecological tipping point” past which we are told there is no return. The obstacles to global ecological sustainability are particularly overwhelming in light of the triple ecological challenge: the attachment of consumers, especially in the developed countries, to their unsustainable and insatiable lifestyle; the relentless pursuit of corporate profit by companies that serve the consumer market; and the legitimate desire of the socially and economically marginalized populations of the developing countries for an equitable share of the world’s resources.