ABSTRACT
The chapter, Sustainability’s Paradox, sets its sights on reviewing sustainability’s limitations to combat climate change: fossil fuel reduction, clean energy production, land reclamation, buildings topped with forests, recycling etc., pointing out that these are only a part of the solution in a world divided by human conflict in the form of social, economic, and political inequality, racial discrimination, water scarcity, and food insecurity to name a few. It reviews the successes and failures of sustainability policies on the earth’s ecology in terms in how climate change is presented, interpreted, and distorted by governments and corporations. The chapter puts forward a rethinking of Earth-human coexistence, which the author believes can only be achieved in a world that is accessible, where global human mobility is at the forefront of global sustainable policies. Furthermore, it argues that without resource equality between peoples across the world, there cannot be a sustainable human-Earth ecology. Finally, it introduces the concept of ‘wearing our ecology’—a mobile human environmentalism where sustainable futures are positioned within the hands of people to enact rather than being compromised in global policymaking decisions.
