Building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has everfaced. Prosperity has been created by ruthless and ill-disciplined mining of the world'sresources, compounded by a cavalier disregard for the implications of pollution fromindustrial and agricultural processes. Today's generation has borrowed from the futureby grabbing prosperity now and imposing the cost on the next generation.In this startling and informative book, which will appeal to both students and generalreaders, award-winning writer Chris Goodall provides a coherent new explanation ofwhat sustainability actually is. Goodall then goes onto explore nine key sustainabilitychallenges, applying the theory of sustainability to look at food, travel, clothing, electricity, heating and cooling, paper and cardboard, construction, consumerelectronics, and air travel.