Sustainability commandment #5

By G. Rendell. Without good, clean air, any one of us is dead in a matter of minutes.  Without good clean water, in days.  Without good, fertile (I hesitate to say "clean") soil, in months or  years.  None of these resources is infinitely available.  Each has a capacity to restore itself to good condition, but that capacity is both time-dependent and tightly constrained.  And yet thousands of activities that each of us living in developed societies take for granted poison the soil, the air and the water on a daily basis.  We're killing ourselves, and we've got to stop kidding ourselves. Read more...