The Sunday Read: ‘What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay’
20 November 2022 - 57 minsAcross the world, developed nations have locked themselves into unsustainable, energy-intensive lifestyles. As environmental collapse threatens, the journalist Noah Gallagher Shannon explores the lessons in sustainability that can be learned from looking “at smaller, perhaps even less prosperous nations” such as Uruguay.
“The task of shrinking our societal footprint is the most urgent problem of our era — and perhaps the most intractable,” writes Shannon, who explains that the problem of reducing our footprints further “isn’t that we don’t have models of sustainable living; it’s that few exist without poverty.”
Tracing Uruguay’s sustainability, Shannon shows how a relatively small populati...
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