Personally, I prefer the term "resilience". But seriously and with due respect to those who have the difficult task of implementing sustainable policies:
Is the word really the problem or is it the purpose that we put it to? Sustainability is an ideal, like democracy. Should we discard it because "true" implementation is impossible? More important, what is the alternative on offer? It seems to me that any meaningful word--and any ideal--will be contested and confusing. So we might as well get rid of the word, but it won't improve implementation. The ideal will still be there in all its ambiguity and contradiction and power, waiting for a new buzzword to come along and claim it. At least by dissecting the concept we can start to understand its use as a political tool or as a personal ethos. Best, Dgwebster On Aug 30, 2011 9:13 PM, "Hirsch, Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
