Sustainability

Sustainability is a very broad concept. It aims to cut down unhealthy and unnecessary production, development, consumption, etc. It's about how we as humans interact with our environment while being conscious of our actions. This term can mean different things for different cultures as well, which makes it hard to define. Sustainability is not about preservation its about coming into contact with a resource and wanting to sustain it for the betterment of the group and the environment. We as humans are clearly interconnected with nature. In a philosophical sense we are not above nature, thus we should be loving and intimate with our environment so that we know how and why it reacts like it does. We should embrace our relation with our environment so that we won't deplete resources and/or take more than is necessary. Also, to be sustainable we must value others, not just the environment. The effects we have on the environment in-directly effects lower class citizens who live in unsanitary environments. If anything be sustainable for your fellow citizen because we really are all related in some form or fashion.

I think David Orr puts it best when he states, "We cannot know what sustainability means until we have decided what we intend to sustain and how we propose to do so" (Earth in Mind, 141).
This question is perfect because indicating what and how to sustain our environment is where it starts and that seems to be the goal of this course.