{"id":2580,"date":"2014-12-04T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2014-12-14T12:21:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T12:21:27","slug":"what-we-need-to-do-if-were-to-have-a-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/what-we-need-to-do-if-were-to-have-a-future\/","title":{"rendered":"What we need to do if we&#8217;re to have a future."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future Earth, a global initiative bringing together scientists across different disciplines, has launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureearth.org\/sites\/default\/files\/future-earth_10-year-vision_web.pdf\">strategy to identify key priorities for sustainability<\/a>.\u00a0 The eight objectives are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver water, energy and food for all<\/li>\n<li>Decarbonise socio-economic systems<\/li>\n<li>Safeguard the terrestrial, freshwater and marine natural assets<\/li>\n<li>Building healthy, resilient and productive cities<\/li>\n<li>Promote sustainable rural futures<\/li>\n<li>Improve human health<\/li>\n<li>Encourage sustainable consumption and production patterns<\/li>\n<li>Increase social resilience to future threats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is an attempt to help coordinate policy with science.\u00a0 It has taken over 30 years since the Bruntland Commission release the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un-documents.net\/our-common-future.pdf\">Our Common Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We need to move much more quickly at the personal level if we&#8217;re to avoid growing serious problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-header\">BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-30277519\">&#8216;Future Earth&#8217; platform outlines global change strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Earth, a global initiative bringing together scientists across different disciplines, has launched its strategy to identify key priorities for sustainability.\u00a0 The eight objectives are: Deliver water, energy and food for all Decarbonise socio-economic systems Safeguard the terrestrial, freshwater and marine natural assets Building healthy, resilient and productive cities Promote sustainable rural futures Improve human &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/what-we-need-to-do-if-were-to-have-a-future\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we need to do if we&#8217;re to have a future.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldofmoney","category-environment","category-living","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-FC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}