Second, this is the arbitrarily declared "I'm going to attempt to talk sustainability even though I just leased a new automobile" edition of a State of Sustainability, even though this is the first in what I hope to be an annual occurrence.
Take this as a stream of consciousness post. It will be at times random, as sustainability as a whole is a large, messy network.
BUT, as this is a first, some grounding:
- Sustainability, in brief, describes the ability for a way of life to be prolonged for more than just 1 lifetime (approximately 70 years; I'm probably being generous).
- "Trending towards sustainable" means steps are being taken to ensure a way of life can last a lifetime or more.
- Matters of birth and death I will not discuss in detail here, as I reserve this post for conscious living practice of sustainability. Generally though: births worldwide/overall have to decline, while death does what it does best too keep the world from becoming overcrowded and over-consumed.
- The focus points are resources vital to the way the world ticks today: fertile land for food of all varieties for the carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores amongst us all; clean, unsalted water for humans, animals, and plants; structural material like wood, clay, asphalts, concretes, metals, etc.; petroleum (and derivatives such as gasoline), coal, and other hydrocarbons essential to the transformation of those structural materials into useful tools (mills, factories, cars, etc...) and fuel for them all.
