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• How would you define sustainability?
• Now that you have brainstormed what you think sustainability means. Create a list of the ways the area where you live tries to be sustainable.
• Put into simple terms, sustainability is:
• “the ability to sustain” or, put another way, “the capacity to endure.”
Sustainability:
• Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.
• Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.
• Sustainability means more than recycling, planting trees, or driving less.
• Sustainability encompasses 3 pillars, or spheres: the ecological, the social, and the economic.
• It is a model that looks at all areas of life, the natural and the man made, and recognizes that you can’t look at any one of these without considering the others.
• Sustainability, and sustainable development, is about developing an ecologically aware, socially just, and economically responsible society.
• Should we continue to clear cut forest for the sake of human consumption?
• Why should we continue to propagate our species, and life itself?
• Should we continue to make gasoline powered vehicles?
• What environmental obligations do we need to keep for future generations?
• Is it right for humans to knowingly cause the extinction of a species for the convenience of humanity?
• How should we best use and conserve the space of our environment to secure and expand life?
• These are ethical decisions that human beings may make with respect to the environment.
Economic Ethic:
• They think that the resources on Earth should be exploited in order to make money.
• They are profit driven. Thinking about making money now, and don’t think about how it may effect future generations down the road.
• Profit and employment are important factors.
• Technology will be developed to help replace non-renewable resources.
Preservationist Ethic:
• Believe that resources can be used but only to a limited amount.
• There should also be large areas of wilderness preserved and left untouched.
Balanced Multiple-Use Ethic:
• Ideas follow closest to sustainability principles.
• It dictates that land can be used for a variety of economic and recreational purposes, and the resources are to be used in a way that does not deplete them for future generations.
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