Education for sustainable development: Facing the future
Issue 338 | Page 31 | Published Sep 2010
Description
In the 30 years or so that I have been attempting to understand and address the many related problems, I have tried to dig deep and ask myself what it is in our general attitude to the world that is ultimately at fault? In doing so, of course, it must have appeared as though I was just flitting from one subject to another – from agriculture to architecture, from education to healthcare – but I was merely trying to point out where the imbalance was most acute, where the essential unity of things, as reflected in nature, was being dangerously fragmented and deconstructed.
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