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What is The Tao of Sustainable Development? The purpose of Sustainable Development must be to deliver a Postcapitalist framework whereby every human has ready access to all basic necessities – clean air, water, food, sanitation, sustainable housing, health care, and energy – whilst simultaneously remaining below the carrying capacity of the natural environment both locally and globally. Additionally, it must provide bodily and mental freedom as well as delivering quality educational opportunities to allow all humans to develop a broad range of skills and inculcate reciprocity as the cornerstone of human interactions. Moreover, it must seek to raise the consciousness of all humans so that negative emotional and mental-health issues are a fraction of the levels we see today. It also maximises opportunities for leisure time and for activities which lead to the flow-state. Postcapitalist systems are thus synonymous with a quest for Utopia, defined here as, Technologically Advanced Effective Compassionate Egalitarianish Systems. The Tao of Sustainable Development presents a workable radical alternative paradigm to the current failing global consumerist-capitalist socio-economic paradigm. A continuation along the destructive linear path of the arms-trade walking hand in hand with neo-liberalist capitalist ‘free’ market economics is no longer fit for purpose; only a paradigm change of socio-economic political philosophy can deliver long term environmental sustainability and social justice. The Tao of Sustainable Development offers a paradigm change of education, philosophy, psychology, technology and values that is essentially Utopian in nature. Furthermore, The Tao of Sustainable Development proposes that there are five minimum characteristics to achieve sustainable societies both locally and globally. These characteristics are; 1.Sustainable Agriculture & Animal Husbandry2.Cyclical Resource Use (C2C) and Advanced Technology3.Individual and Collective Psychological Freedom4.Effective & Egalitarian State Forms and Non-State Forms (NSFs)5.Holistic Education Systems.These five parts; Sustainable systems of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry; Cyclical Resource use and Advanced Technology; Individual and Collective Psychological Freedom; Effective & Egalitarian State Forms and Non-State Forms (NSFs): Holistic Education Systems are the essence of The Tao of Sustainable Development and all five are necessary. The primary aim of this work is to reframe the debate around Sustainability, to facilitate a questioning of the assumptions that we have about human organisation and investigate alternatives to the prevailing global economic paradigm of neo-liberal capitalism; to look at the world with new eyes. Secondly it is to empower groups & individuals with a simultaneously realistic and glorious vision of the human future. Thirdly it is to suggest some possible starting actions to bring about the transformations required for our thriving human future. Probably the best book on Postcapitalism you'll ever read.Authors website: alasdairlord.co.ukTwitter: @alasdair_lordThis is the second version of The Tao of Sustainable Development
