Sustainable-schmamable
Today I googled the words “environmental sustainability” and in .38 seconds, Google gave me 8,950,000 results. In the first page, I see entries on Wikipedia (of course), a funding opportunity from the National Science Foundation to support engineering research, something called the EcoEarth Portal and another site to end poverty by 2015.
Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about sustainability…
“Sustainability, is a broad sense, is the capacity to ensure.” As good of a definition as any, I suppose. Although the word endure in its current use seems to me to equate with “suffer through” and creating a sustainable world shouldn’t be something we all have to grit our teeth and endure. If that is the case, then I have a feeling that we won’t be getting there anytime soon, since we Americans are creatures of comfort and convenience.
Can you tell I am feeling disillusioned today?
