ABSTRACT
Our current times are fraught with realities of large-scale crises occurring or looming in many environmental realms – global warming, climate change, sea level rise, loss of animal and plant habitat, species extinction, water scarcity, air and water pollution, waste accumulation, desertification, loss of agricultural lands, massive human population increases. The list seems endless and the consequences of allowing these trends to continue into even the near future are predicted by many to be dire. Identifying solutions and putting them into practice is incredibly complicated given the interconnected global scope of environmental problems and the growth-oriented human socio-economic systems in which most people today live, which are the root cause of the problems.
