16Mastering Sustainability Requires Technology, Finance, and the Powers of Homo Deus

Herman Bril, Georg Kell, and Andreas Rasche

DOI: 10.4324/9781003262039-18

Introduction—mastering sustainability is a must

The world is in a pickle, as always. Homo sapiens, or wise man in Latin, faced insurmountable challenges and is the only one not extinct from several species grouped into the genus Homo. Michael Bhaskar (2021: 27) explains in Human Frontiers that

understanding history means understanding both ideas and the conditions that give rise to ideas. They are not the decorative flowers gilding human civilisation, outgrowths of everything else; they are the soil, the atmosphere, the supporting superstructure itself. Big ideas matter. Having an ...

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