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Sustainability Isn't Sustainable

Posted by khalling 9 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
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this is a duplicate post. However, on Earth Day, I wanted to remind everybody that it should be "Man Day"
is it a coincidence Earth Day is Lenin's birthday?

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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 1 month ago
    "The supposed solution for our Peak Oil problem is to develop renewable energy resources. "
    Developing alternative energy sources is the only solution for humankind to carry on living a modern lifestyle.

    The universe won't last forever, so technically nothing is truly sustainable. If an energy resource lasts for as long as anatomically modern humans have existed, however, I'll call that sustainable.
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  • Posted by salta 9 years, 1 month ago
    The word "sustainability" is misused all the time to add political prestige to to the wrong things.
    But isn't it just as incorrect to say it should mean lasting beyond the end of the universe when everything will disappear as a sea of entropy? The term (sensibly used) refers to processes within the possible timescales of human civilization.
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