Buckminster Fuller an innovator and forward-thinker was thinking about sustainability and socio-ecological issues about 70 years ago.
“Fuller was convinced that the accumulation of relevant knowledge, combined with the quantities of key recyclable resources that had already been extracted from the earth, had reached a critical level, such that competition for necessities was no longer necessary. Cooperation had became the optimum survival strategy. ‘Selfishness’, he declared, ‘is unnecessary and…unrationalizable…War is obsolete…’ “
Framework 21 