« Honoria's through with nice! | Main | Doing the math for NASA » April 16, 2008Screw sustainability?The supposedly brilliant Howard Bloom makes up a definition of sustainability ("...merely hanging in there, merely surviving, merely sustaining. It implies a penny-pinching earth, a miserly existence, a nature that punishes change, and a nature that prefers small tribes to large groups of human beings.") The he explains at length why we should "screw it." Commenter brettski rightly calls Bloom on his sustainability fantasy, posting an accurate definition: ""Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet's climatic system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry, and fisheries, and human communities in general and the various systems on which they depend." [Link] jon posted this at 10:23 PM |
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