Half of a century has passed since, when at lunch with my parents and brothers one Sunday, we hotly contested the prospects for future generations if the world’s forests were to continue to shrink, populations to rise, and desertification to increase. Much has changed since then. Substantiated data increasingly supports the insightful intuitions that informed our 60’s lunchtime debate. Sustainability has become mainstream and every corporation that looks to the future knows that its’ reputation could be severely damaged if this once marginal issue is not properly managed. So much has changed and yet……… the world’s forests continue to shrink, populations to rise, and every year deserts roll forward. We are prodigiously clever, but wisdom ...
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