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Monday, September 17th, 2018

This Is the World’s Most Sustainable Country

Author:     Costas Christ
Source:     National Geographic
Publication Date:     17 September 2018 (used)
 Link: This Is the World’s Most Sustainable Country
Stephan:   Not every country in the world is like the U.S., so corrupted by greed and stupidity that they can't see the central truth of the future: climate change is going to change everything and the time to prepare for what it will bring is now. All day today I have been watching what is happening in the Carolinas. I find it at once depressing and astonishing seeing what the Republicans and the Republican voters in the Carolinas have not done, and the misery that stupidity has brought them. As an antidote to watching that misery one of my readers in Slovenia sent me this -- yes, SR has readers in Slovenia, quite a number of them actually. Slovenia shows us the future can be happy but it requires making wellbeing instead of greed and stupidity the major social priority.

The church of St. John the Baptist sits behind Bohinj Lake in Slovenia.
Credit: Ermedin Islamcevic

The numbers give rise to the reason: There were 25 million international tourists in 1950. Last year, more than one billion globetrotters set out to see the world’s cultural and natural wonders—from the Serengeti’s Great Migration to the ancient Inca cities of Peru. We now have more places to go and more ways to get there than ever before. With that comes an even greater responsibility to safeguard our fragile planet for future generations.As the United Nations heralds 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, one place rises above the rest: Slovenia. Last year this Adriatic enclave, nestled amid emerald fields, snowy peaks, and sparkling waters, was declared the world’s most sustainable country. Slovenia achieved an eye-opening 96 out of 100 detailed sustainability indicators (think environment and climate, culture and authenticity, nature and biodiversity, among others.) And its quaint capital Ljubljana was also anointed Europe’s […]

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