Karel Rogers, PhD – Sustainable

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Being sustainable simply means that whatever you’re doing is something that your great, great grandchildren could also do.  Anything that, you know, you’re doing that couldn’t be done by generations into the future is, by definition, non-sustainable.  The hoopla around that word, like sustainability in some particular business model and that sort of thing, is simply a misuse of that word.  Frankly, right now our…  Most of the things we’re doing as a culture are not sustainable.  It’s literally a problem that’s waiting to happen.  I noticed in an article recently about ethics of dealing with global warming and climate change, the economists are saying that in the future, our children will be richer than we are and have more money to deal with these problems, and I thought, wow, you know, what a false way to look at things, and certainly not a sustainable way to look at things.  To assume the future gets richer, even though we’re using up resources and leaving, you know, our climate system in a shambles because of how we use energy or how we use and waste energy.