Are we just fooling ourselves? are we just postponing the inevitable? can we really be sustainable and maintain our incredibly high standard of living? are we willing to the forgo comforts of life in order to be sustainable? can we learn to live small? is everyone willing to invest the personal energy it will take to consume less, because they will have to do more(hang your clothes out to dry instead of putting them in the dryer...that kind of thing)?
In the talks I give around the country I have said that "I think sustainability is a myth until we change the way we live". We are willing to support most things unless it impacts us. We are willing to do most things until it makes life less comfortable.
That doesn't mean we should stop trying, or innovating, or doing what we are comfortable doing. It may buy us time. Time for new technoglogies; time for solutions; time to decide we do need to change the way we live.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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