Sustainability Commandment #1

By G. Rendell. If there are sustainability commandments, this has to be the first.
This is your planet, your home.  It’s the only one you’re ever going to have, so if you want to continue having it, you’ve got to take care of it.  Its resources and capacities are finite.  Demand more in the way of resources than it can supply, or exceed any of its various capacities on a continuing basis, and it won’t be your home for long.  The planet will survive, but you won’t.  And the planet won't care.
Not only is some version of the above the most pervasive truth behind the sustainability challenges now staring us in the face (whether or not we choose to look), it’s also the truth most often ignored or tacitly contradicted in most higher ed curricula. Read more...