ABSTRACT
In 1962 Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, which heralded the rebirth of concern with the modernist project and the birth of the sustainability project. By referring to modernism and sustainability as projects mean that they are both grand plans by humanity to manage their relationship with planet home. This programme has not delivered to 30% of the world's people measured in terms of material affluence, and it has not taken into account the carrying capacity of planet Earth. At the beginning of the 21st century this has been referred to as 'social deception', having failed to deliver Keynes's dream of humanity living 'beyond scarcity'. To believe in planet home represents the politics of tolerance, the politics of hope, the triumph of awe over mortality, and a desire to believe in something—not in just anything but in this shared home for humanity.
