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    Article: Sustainable

    Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey

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    Quote Originally posted by Dan View post
    Actually, sustainable is sustainable.

    The problem is that we are starting from a position that is already unsustainable: too many people consuming too many resources. Until that changes, nothing we do will be sustainable - it will be "sustainable". Our job , however, is to leave good patterns for after the correction, for people to remember, discover, emulate, and copy. In hopes it will be OK in the future and we wake up.
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