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Originally Posted by Bowman
I'm starting to think that isolating some of the problems we face as a global civilization is misleading and actually unhelpful, issues such as global warming, peak oil, destruction of the rain forests, HIV/aids, the war on terror, globalization, etc.
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I would see all these not as the problem but as symptoms of a problem. The all emerge out of the way we do things, out of our interactions and those of companies and governments. In other words they emerge as by-products of our current socioeconomic system.
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Originally Posted by Bowman
While each should have a place in our every day consciousness, sustainability needs to be as instinctive as breathing and needs to be the single most important consideration in everything we do, as individuals, as families, as local communities, at regional, national, and continental, and global level.
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Or in other words, we need a new culture and a new socioeconomic system, which could mean giving up some cherished beliefs.
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Originally Posted by Bowman
There is much more talk of sustainability in the press, especially over the last year, yet the word is always linked to some other issue be it environmental, business, energy etc. I don't recall an article or analysis in the press or media, much less from any politician that addresses sustainability as a value that should be central to every aspect of human activity.
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That, I think, results form the way the mainstream perceives sustainability. They see it as meaning “keeping what we do now going”. Personally, I don’t see that as something we can do, thus we need to see sustainability as a change in the way we do things. They we can start look at everything we do.