Towards a Sustainable Society: Considerations from a Natural Science Perspective

In this article I address three main crises of the Anthropocene: energy and climate, biodiversity and food, and peace and security. To obtain overall sustainability, natural scientists and engineers have developed the Energy Transition Model, the Carbon Transition Model, and the Agri-food-nature Transition Model. From these models two facts stand out. The age of fossil fuels and of livestock farming will come to an end. Because a sustainable society also has sociopolitical and legal, socioeconomic and financial, sociocultural and welfare, and socioenvironmental and ecological aspects, the contribution of human scientists to overall sustainability is also crucial. Keywords: Agri-food-nature Transition Model, Anthropocene, Carbon Transition Model, Energy Transition Model, sustainability
We are running out of time. Fifty years ago the Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth, and today it is worthwhile to reread their conclusions (Meadows et al. [...]