The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artefacts. We now live in a new geologic era known by some as the Anthropocene, a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support systems.
Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed when the human population was relatively small and natural resources deemed abundant. So if we are to create sustainable prosperity, we need a new vision of the economy and its relationship to the rest of Nature that is far better adapted to the conditions we now face.
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