A new book by Pierre Courtemanche
Sustainability is not failing because we lack information.
It may be failing because the system absorbs contradictions faster than it resolves them.
About the Book
For decades, governments, corporations, and civil society have invested heavily in sustainability — reporting frameworks, certification schemes, carbon markets, ESG mandates, international agreements.
By most ecological and social measures, the trajectory has not improved. In many areas, it has worsened.
The Sustainability Mirage does not ask how to make current frameworks more effective. It asks a more fundamental question: what if the problem is not the quality of our solutions, but the nature of the system we are trying to sustain?
About the BookWhy do sustainability outcomes continue to deteriorate despite decades of effort?
What incentives are embedded in the system that sustainability is trying to reform?
Can sustainable development succeed within a system designed for perpetual growth?
Forthcoming
What system are we
trying to sustain?
The book is forthcoming. If this question matters to you — as a practitioner, a reader, a publisher, or a thinker — we'd like to hear from you.
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