ABSTRACT
In Part I, I traced the failures of the sustainable development model back to serious defects in its conceptual structure, in the way it articulates understanding, ecological responsibility and motivation together. In Part II we have been exploring an alternative conceptualization of the sustainability imperative which is meant to avoid those defects. But the whole point of such reconceptualizing must in the end be to liberate our practical imaginations – to empower a new vision of the real possibilities open to us. In that spirit, this third and concluding part of the book looks at a range of practical approaches across the fields of energy usage, planning and policymaking, education and enterprise. Some of these are already in place, others on the stocks or at any rate on the cards. What matters, if my overall argument is along the right lines, is to see what difference a deep sustainability rather than a sustainable development rationale might make to the way we see what we are doing in all these areas – especially with reference to climate change. From that difference can be expected to flow some very significant differences in how we follow these practical measures through, and thus in what in turn might emerge from them.
