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I find "sustainable" not the best word. We need something more positive.
I mean...
"How's your job?"
"It's sustainable."
"And your marriage?"
"Sustainable."
"What do you think of the government?"
"I can sustain them, I suppose."
It's not very optimistic, it suggests just hanging on to the edge.
It's a bit like that word "tolerance." I'd hope for something better than being merely tolerated in a society. I'd prefer being embraced, welcomed.
We need a better word.
It seems we discussed that a while back too. "Sustainable" being an overused word that suggests you are a lefty treehugging libberul. It's just a word, though.
I suspect in about another decade, the watchword will be "survivable". (what with multiple crises coming alont)
The watchword, if you don't want to sound like a 'lefty treehugging libberul' is "resilient". Much more positive, and without the association with crusties.
I agree. One person who is exploring this is William McDonough. He seems to think that celebratory is a more apt description of the aspect of nature that we want to emulate. He points out that life grows and is fecund and it does not get into trouble the way we do because its growth promotes other growth. Where we make waste, other forms of life make food. Where we tear up ecosystems, other predators improve the stock of the prey. "Sustainability" is an outcome of a celebratory attitude towards nature, not a goal in itself. And, ecosystems are not really sustained, the evolve in their balance, growing more diverse and robust.
Chris