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CREE Summer School Seminar - Learning and Sustainability: recognising the mirage
University of Bath
15 July 2008
Learning is central to ecological responsibility – but the real question is, how?
On the now dominant sustainable development picture, various kinds of learning are instrumental to our behaving responsibly towards the future within an ecological framework of actions and consequences. The urgent issue of climate change offers a clear instance.
John Foster’s forthcoming book, The Sustainability Mirage (Earthscan, 2008) argues that the sustainable development model is not the solution, but increasingly part of the problem. Sustainable development thinking got the issues onto the mainstream agenda.
John Foster is a freelance teacher and writer, and honorary research fellow in philosophy at Lancaster University. He is the editor of Valuing Nature? Economics, Ethics and Environment (Routledge, 1997), and (with Stephen Gough) Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development (Routledge, 2005).
