Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and
goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US
green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural,
forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or
isn’t – sustainable?
Former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland said sustainability means we may develop … and meet the needs of current generations … only to the extent that doing so “will not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”
At first blush, that sounds logical, perhaps even ethical. But on closer examination, it is neither. It’s right out of Alice’s encounter with an anthropomorphic egg in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/02/02/real-sustainability-versus-activist-sustainability-n1502612?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
Former Prime Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland said sustainability means we may develop … and meet the needs of current generations … only to the extent that doing so “will not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”
At first blush, that sounds logical, perhaps even ethical. But on closer examination, it is neither. It’s right out of Alice’s encounter with an anthropomorphic egg in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/02/02/real-sustainability-versus-activist-sustainability-n1502612?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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