For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Here's a good article on solutions to the many problems we often discuss in World Development. The authors suggest that we have the knowledge to make positive changes, we just need leaders who are brave enough to stand up to the status quo and replace short term thinking with a longer term, sustainable perspective.

"The current system is broken," said climatologist Bob Watson, a Blue Planet winner in 2010 and the instigator of the report. "It is driving humanity to a future that is 3-5 degrees Celsius warmer than our species has ever known, and is eliminating the ecology that we depend on for our health, wealth and senses of self. We cannot assume that technological fixes will come fast enough. Instead we need human solutions. The good news is that they exist but decision makers must be bold and forward thinking to seize them."

Read more: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0421-hance_earthday_blueplanetreport.html#ixzz1srhAWRjY