Riza Yehiya Advocates 'Sustainable Family' Model to Combat Climate Crisis 🌿

• Core Thesis: Top-down global accords and macro policies fail to alter individual behavior. Architect and writer Mohamed Riza Yehiya's new book proposes a bottom-up anthropological approach, framing the family unit as the foundational institution for lasting environmental stewardship. • Educational Shift: Highlights the historical erosion of domestic education. Outsourcing values to formal institutions prioritized market utility over moral baselines; climate action requires reclaiming household-centric ecological ethics. • Five-Pillar Framework: Expands the traditional three-pillar sustainability model (environment, economy, society) by adding good governance/political sustainability and moral responsibility/stewardship (khilafah). • Circular Society: Rejects purely techno-secular fixes and hyper-individualism. Advocates moving from linear extraction to a holistic circular society, integrating spiritual values, controlled consumption, strong family bonds, and community solidarity. • Policy Relevance: Reviewed by former Central Bank Deputy Governor W.A. Wijewardena as a timely blueprint for both national policymakers and religious leaders to build ground-up socio-ecological resilience.