What is sustainability and why care?
There is cause for concern about the general condition of the global environment. What are four global trends that are of particular concern?
I'm going to pretty much skip this as well, for the same reason I bypassed the last "main point" of the introduction.
The next point up on the long list of topics is:
Sustainability is the practical goal towards which we should be working. What is meant by sustainability? For a sustainable society, what are the principal prerequisites?
At the risk of simply appearing lazy, instead of spending yet more time writing about this again, I'm just going to re-direct anyone interested to some old posts I have written about what sustainability means.
That's enough excuse making. I promise to write a long, upbeat, optimistic, bright-green essay for next time based on the next question for discussion raised in the textbook
Sustainable development is now a broadly accepted ideal. How do different disciplines address sustainable development?
