The Regenerative Society Foundation’s Manifesto “No Sustainability Without Regeneration: A Manifesto from an Entrepreneurial Viewpoint” is out! Written by our co-chair Andrea Illy and by our scientific director Prof. Paolo Vineis, is available on the journal Anthropocene Science.
From the abstract:
“Sustainability means perpetuating the living conditions on our planet. All living conditions, no one excluded, are produced by ecosystem services, including the environmental stability and the physiological equilibrium that protect our health. Nature perpetuates these ecosystem services by spontaneously regenerating the biosphere. A corollary of these enunciations is that there cannot be sustainability without regeneration or, in other words, that sustainability is just regeneration. It is, therefore, urgent to address and quantify the regenerative capacity of the planet, which is the difference between the net primary production and human extraction of resources. Natural capital depletion is also a cause of poverty and inequality, due to its impacts on food security and on the economy in general. A second corollary of our diagnosis is that, due to its multisystem complexity—economic, social and environmental—sustainability must be managed with a systemic approach; in other words, it cannot be managed from a reductionist angle.”
The Manifesto’s sections:
- The transition from Holocene to Anthropocene
- Nature-culture dichotomy
- The social and the environmental crisis
- Sustainability or regeneration?
- A regenerative commitment of entrepreneurs and scientists
- Five policy recommendations
Read the full Manifesto here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44177-024-00080-w