ABSTRACT
Climate change will provide the global perception with an opportunity for redress. Climate change has the potential to pose an unprecedented threat to society, economies and human beings themselves. A climate change trigger event could offer the opportunity to reflect upon and come to concrete terms with fundamental reconceptualisations of the 'good life', i.e. what constitutes life satisfaction, social status and a sense of personal worth. Climate change may be the tipping point that offers an opportunity for sustainability and resource conservation to finally be allocated the appropriate central roles as the key informants to a healthy and prosperous global future. The definition of sustainable development arose with the recognition that development to eradicate poverty in developing countries was inevitable, but that this growth needed to be reconciled with a 'limits to growth' mentality. As a city, Cape Town bridges the developing and developed world and, as such, represents many of the core global sustainability issues.
