Our Challenge

Hills and water
Panel 6. Our Challenge. Humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. How can our area be a home to thriving people in a thriving place while respecting the wellbeing of all people and the health of the whole planet ?
‘The Doughnut: a 21st-century compass. The 12 dimensions of the social foundation are derived from the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Between social and planetary boundaries lies an environmentally safe and socially just space in which humanity can thrive. Kate Raworth: Economist, Environmental Change Institute
‘The Doughnut: a 21st-century compass. The 12 dimensions of the social foundation are derived from the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Between social and planetary boundaries lies an environmentally safe and socially just space in which humanity can thrive. Kate Raworth: Economist, Environmental Change Institute
Our many local groups and initiatives are already laying strong foundations to meet this and other challenges
Change is inevitable as we rapidly wean ourselves off fossil fuel dependence, regenerate local and global eco-systems and create a fairer more equitable society focussed on wellbeing for all.
Brought into right relationship with the wilderness, man…. would see that his appropriation of earth’s resources beyond his personal needs would only bring imbalance and beget ultimate loss and poverty for all. BY LINNIE MARSH WOLFE, DESCRIBING MUIR’S REMEDY FOR HUMAN MISERY IN HER BOOK – SON OF THE WILDERNESS: THE LIFE OF JOHN MUIR (1945)
Panel 5 | changing the system – what can we do?
panel 7 | WHAT IF