Sustainability Across the Globe There Essay

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An Interest in Sustainability

To many the term sustainability is the new buzzword, a fad which will dissipate in the complexities of the global community, and to others the concept is foreign. In either case however, the necessity of reaching out and providing information on sustainability is crucial to the amelioration of environmental, societal, and economic problems. To advance the sustainability concept it becomes necessary to limn the discussion in the context of an interconnected world in which resources are finite and demand will steadily increase. Individual countries are no longer capable of isolation to the effects of global activity. To present and teach sustainability requires a focus on interdependency and connectivity, a realization that the global environment is a central commonality to all humanity.


A conclusion which concatenates the three articles on sustainability is that existing political, social, and economic agents are not fully capable of initiating or implementing the changes necessary to incorporate a global sustainability initiative. Moving forward the catalyst to a sustainable approach will depend on "major shift in our core values and dominant culture- in effect, the evolution of a new consciousness" (Leiserowitz, a. & Fernandez, L. 2008). This cultural change may only be precipitated by the continued intensity of environmental, social, political, and economic calamities which currently impact the global community. Perhaps though, the change may spring from the realization that humanity is just one piece of a larger ecosystem that is critically dependent on discovering the equilibrium which is at the foundation of global.....

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