ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author suggests we need to reassess our outlook and update our thinking to see every uncertainty as a possible opportunity. One way to deal with uncertainty is to take a fresh look at our world, our organisations and our activities – to see whether our existing concepts and approaches will work in the new and ever-changing environment. We need to see how uncertainty affects our thinking about global economics and climate and how uncertainty shapes the world's evolving actions on sustainability. Greg Chant-Hall, an international expert on sustainability, suggests that people in different parts of society see sustainability as different things, and the different interpretations can contribute to uncertainty and lead to confused and mutually incomprehensible conversations. From an organisation's perspective, anything that doesn't cost money is preferred, but designing out waste is hard to do, and reducing waste means changing behaviour. So the option is to recycle. But let's have a closer look at the Waste Hierarchy.