article_snippet.sent: Sustainable development offers a path out of this growing crisis.
article_snippet.sent: Major parts of the world, from Pakistan and Iran to California and Brazil, are experiencing mega-droughts, and the prospect of catastrophic water scarcity in the future unless something changes.  
article_snippet.sent: In my new book, The Age of Sustainable Development, I¹ve not only analyzed the trends of growing inequality and rising environmental destruction, but have also shown how the concepts of sustainable development can be used to chart a way out of our growing crisis.  
article_snippet.sent: The ongoing revolution of information and communications technology (ICT) is an incredibly powerful enabler of new sustainable technologies.  
article_snippet.sent: Consider the challenge of climate change, for example.  
article_snippet.sent: Yet a science-based sustainable development perspective shows that not only is human-induced climate change very real and very dangerous, but that the science is also solvable at very low cost by switching over the next 30 years to electric vehicles, heat pumps, well-insulated buildings, smart ICT-enabled grid, wind and solar energy, and other low-carbon and energy efficient technologies.
article_snippet.sent: If the world takes the time to do the world homework and plan for the future, the world can bring the climate crisis under control and still enjoy a growing supply of quality energy services.