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Coursera: The Age of Sustainable Development from Jeff Sachs, Columbia University
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Jeff is teaching a course called The Age of Sustainable Development, below is a guest blogpost written by Jeff on the course. “For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all form of human poverty and all forms of human life,” John F. Kennedy observed a half-century ago, and his observation speaks to us today with special urgency. Our generation is truly the first that can end the ancient scourge of extreme poverty. Yet is also the one that can destroy the Earth’s life support system through human- induced environmental destruction. We have entered the Age of Sustainable Development. I am therefore enormously excited and pleased to be launching a free, global, online university course in this critical subject in January 2014. Sustainable Development is both a way of looking at the world, and a way of helping to save it. As…