This word sustainable means a lot of different things to different people. One simple definition might be ‘to keep going.’ A sustainable society being one that is able to keep going.
If we look at how we keep going, we could technically have a great war, which I’m in no way saying is a good thing, but still keep going.
Or we could theoretically totally destroy the environment of this earth we live on while we gain technology to enter a space age that allows certain people to travel to other planets and by this ‘keep going.’
Makes one start thinking about who ‘we’ is and just who will ‘keep going.’ Just what is to be sustainable? A subset of people? All people? The earth itself? Two people that can procreate? People remaining here on earth? People traveling to some other planet?
There are a lot of options to being sustainable. I just want to expand thinking on this term.
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