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- Simple Sustainability
- Seeking to Understand Sustainability
- Hints towards practice
- Getting out of the way
Karl-Henrik Robert
Sustainability is the capacity of our human society to continue indefinitely within the capacity of the natural cycles within the biosphere and between the biosphere and lithosphere. Sustainable development is development towards the state of sustainability.
Sustainability involves addressing four unsustainable behaviours.
Unsustainable behaviours:
- Extracting relatively large flows of materials from the earth's crust and allowing these materials to accumulute in the biosphere
- Allowing large quantities of materials human society generates to accumulate in the biosphere faster than Nature can cope with
- Physically inhibiting Nature's ability to run cycles
- Creating in our society barriers to people meeting human needs worldwide