Why Eco-Sustainability?
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March 6, 2008, 1:13 am
Filed under: 2008 Semester One
Filed under: 2008 Semester One
”Attempting to be brief, the world is facing myriad problems. The biggest threat to the earth (and therefore humans) appears to be global warming, but problems with soil depletion, toxic waste, ecosystem destruction, pollution, loss of biodiversity, and fragmentation of habitat, among others, are also pressing on the earth system. While each one of these issues may be manageable by itself, the negative synergy of all together make the global and local situation dire. If you are familiar with the seriousness of the problems facing the world, then we need say no more.
For the time being, we will simply state the conclusion that with all the problems we are facing, whether we directly caused them or not, we are clearly going to need a new and less impactful way of living to withstand all the current threats. This new way of living has been called a more “sustainable” way of living, however, much about the term “sustainable” is nebulous and often hotly debated, and therefore we have chosen to encapsulate our ideas about this new way of life under the word “ecosustainability,” a word which inherently does not have much significance to us, but is useful for communication. The next logical step then is to describe what this thing we call ecosustainability really is, and how it is different from plain old sustainability”
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