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Three Cities: Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
Orthodox is obsolete; conventional is kaput. We thought we knew how we make economics, politics, technology and nature work for us. But increasingly, they are failing to run by the rules and systems we’ve honed over recent decades. Boom-bust economies, fractured and destructive politics and a deeply degraded ecosystem are just some of the symptoms.
Pioneers around the world are seeking new values, systems and technologies. Thus equipped we might achieve the unprecedented, speed, scale and complexity of change we need to meet the immense challenges of the twenty-first century.
In this BWB Text acclaimed business journalist Rod Oram travels to Beijing, London and Chicago to meet some of these pioneers and report on their setbacks and progress. Because if 10 billion people are going to live well on this planet in 2050, we’re going to have to fundamentally change the way we do things.
Pioneers around the world are seeking new values, systems and technologies. Thus equipped we might achieve the unprecedented, speed, scale and complexity of change we need to meet the immense challenges of the twenty-first century.
In this BWB Text acclaimed business journalist Rod Oram travels to Beijing, London and Chicago to meet some of these pioneers and report on their setbacks and progress. Because if 10 billion people are going to live well on this planet in 2050, we’re going to have to fundamentally change the way we do things.
96 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 10, 2016
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October 17, 2016
A short but fascinating book in which journalist Rod Oram visits three cities around the world to find out what is happening there.
Rod Oram now lives and works in New Zealand, but has at one time or another spent time in London, Chicago and Beijing. He revisits all three to get a sense of what is being done about our environment and protecting our planet.
Sadly the news is not all good. The vested interests of big business and the complexity of both what is happening and what is the best solution make it hard for the man on the street to see and understand the issues.
There are little glimmers of hope around the world, but as yet these actions are not enough to really save our planet. More needs to be done, and now. Oram is not the sort of person just to point out the problem, and so in his concluding 12 pages of this 128 page book, he lays out thoughts for what we could do in the fields of electricity, transport, agriculture, industry, forestry and carbon-neutral tourism. They are good suggestions, but sadly making even a few of them happen will be bloody hard.
Rod Oram now lives and works in New Zealand, but has at one time or another spent time in London, Chicago and Beijing. He revisits all three to get a sense of what is being done about our environment and protecting our planet.
Sadly the news is not all good. The vested interests of big business and the complexity of both what is happening and what is the best solution make it hard for the man on the street to see and understand the issues.
There are little glimmers of hope around the world, but as yet these actions are not enough to really save our planet. More needs to be done, and now. Oram is not the sort of person just to point out the problem, and so in his concluding 12 pages of this 128 page book, he lays out thoughts for what we could do in the fields of electricity, transport, agriculture, industry, forestry and carbon-neutral tourism. They are good suggestions, but sadly making even a few of them happen will be bloody hard.
March 13, 2021
Not something I would normally read, though glad I did. Oram has a magnificent brain that takes the complex and and distills it down to something simple. Some harsh realities in here, big world issues that need to be addressed. Lucky to have people like him here.
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