Coping with Global Environmental Change – Sustainability Revolution and Sustainable Peace

Abstract

In the Anthropocene era of earth and human history we are confronted with opposite : Business-as-usual in a Hobbesian world where economic and strategic interests and behaviour prevail leading to a major crisis of humankind, in inter-state relations and destroying the Earth as the habitat for humans and ecosystems putting the survival of the vulnerable at risk (see the ‘market first’ and ‘security first’ scenarios of UNEP 2007). The need for a transformation of global cultural, environmental, economic (productive and consumptive patterns) and political (with regard to human and interstate) relations (see the ‘sustainability first’ scenario of UNEP 2007).