ABSTRACT
The fourth section of the book describes essential economics of sustainability and demonstrates the economic feasibility of the new wave of economic development and how it is possible to develop a growing economy that is not at odds with sustainability with the preservation and reinstatement of the environment. The advent of a new economy of sustainability will be driven by three major driving forces: efficiency and lifecycle optimization, inentives and policies, and the need of a true economy that does not leave apart envronmenntal liaiblities that are created by day-to-day business.
The last section is related to water and its key role in ensuring abundance and how the cradle-to-cradle approach should be applied to new water schemes to preserve and augment our biosphere.
The leading thought in this part of the book is that there is no contradiction in creating an abundant, prosperous technology that reverses the environmental impact and enables us to live in perfect harmony with nature.
Growth is one of the main prerogatives of economy as it is perceived today. Economy must grow in order to be healthy, and for quite a long time, the emphasis has been on how humanity could solve the apparent dichotomy between environmental impact and sustainable economic development, which has been the base of the incompatibility between sustainability and economy.
The objective of this part of the book is to demonstrate that this dichotomy does not have reason to exist, and a new wave of economic development can reconcile the exigencies of a healthy economy and an abundantly natural world and that these can coexist.
Beyond humanity's own survival and wellness, there are various driving forces that would lead to a greener economy, and these are going to be analyzed in the following part of the book.
