ABSTRACT
Everyone reading this book will come to it with a different perspective on the way the world works, and an entirely personal range of knowledge and experiences. This chapter tries to bring some of it together from a sustainability perspective – to help you fill gaps for yourself, and perhaps gain some helpful insights into why other people think and behave as they do. It might be because of what they do know and have experienced, but equally it may be because of what they do not know or understand. You may not agree with what I have considered important, and be cross that I have left out something you think is vital. But no matter. The objective is for you to mobilize your critical faculties and arrive at your own broad but sustainability-literate view of the world.
