He believes their concept of “ecological civilisation” is the best formulation he’s heard for the new environmental story we must tell. This core document now calls for the building of an ecological civilisation,” he says. My job is to try and clean up the environment for future generations. They’ve thrown hundreds of their best intellectuals at designing the theoretical framework for each of the pieces of the architecture of ecological civilisation.” These include economic, industrial and agricultural policies for an ecological civilisation. So Thornton helped to found his vocation, including teaching the first courses on environmental law.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2017 01:07 UTC