Sustainability

A Vision for Global Sustainability in Fifty Years

When the true environmental costs of our activities are included in the costs of those activities, we will have developed an economic system that ensures long-term environmental sustainability. In the case of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (the cause of acid rain), this approach, in the form of a pollution trading rights system, has been extremely successful. In the case of many other pollutants, including carbon emissions, this approach presently involves severe challenges. FLOW will support and encourage coordinated entrepreneurial endeavors among scientists, engineers, lawyers, politicians, educators, and activists designed to resolve these serious issues. Insofar as individuals act, and expect others to act, out of good faith, and out of love rather than fear and hatred, progress should proceed more quickly in the future than has been the case in the past.