What is Sustainability? The official meaning of sustainability is derived from the latin sustinere( ten ere, to hold; sus, up)
It is everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. It creates the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony.
Sustainability is important, and it is necessary that we have and will continue to have, the water, materials, and resources to protect human health and our environment.
On a personal level i feel that we have been in a period of disconnection to nature. We have been grabbing every available resource on a mass scale for far too long. We are using nature's capital, it doesn't have time to regenerate.
While our lives seem on the surface to be much better, longer life expectancy and good health, we have long past the benefits. People still don't seem to be happy. We seen to work harder and longer for more consumer goods, we don't need at all. What are we teaching our children? How can this be sustainable in a finite world? 
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ReplyDeleteHi Andrea.
I can see tht you are very concerned abut this. That is good. When you teach be careful not to do it negativily but do it in a positive way. LIke we did by talking about dreams for the future. Fin solutions not problems.