Sustainability is the keyword to Life
Sustainability, the ability to maintain, to sustain, in this case life and the human race’s continued existence on this planet, what it all boils down to. How we, humans, as a species, as varied and diverse cultures, can sustain a level of living that is comfortable and sounds from a economic and ecological perspective.
This is one of the major issues facing our world this day. How to continue to live as we have always, and yet stay sustainable. A conundrum I do not believe we can achieve. Some where, at some point and time compromise, real compromise on core social and economic levels, will need to be made. Without them I suspect we could face a collapse that would hurl the modern world into a 4th world scenario, leaving on the 3rd world countries, using those terms in their most layman of senses, in the best shape. Mostly due to a lack of heavy infrastructure, where they will continue pretty much how they are at this time. It will be the most commercialized, more mechanized nations that will take the real hit, experience the fall much harder than those lagging behind, in conventional theory.
So the challenge is how to sustain life, in a form at least similar, to how it is at this stage of the dance on mother earth. This is the sustainability challenge. A key to this challenge is, I believe, transportation. The current world model is predicated on Oil. This is the primary energy source, as transmuted, for transportation. So the movement of goods and services from one location to another, which in turns allows for more people to have access to more things. Without oil, as the main cheap (in comparison to other alternatives) source of motive power, the current world economic model will, I believe, collapse.
So to promote and engender sustainability, my personal opinion is, a new overall source of energy for motion, movement, for transportation, is necessary. This is the key to sustainability, a viable alternative. It will not save the current societal structure, instead I believe it will sustain the human race and allow us, people, a chance at a society similar, and different, that is focused on continuing in the long term our species instead of focused solely on the short term, short sighted, sense of glut capitalistic gains. I feel competition and advancement in the capitalist sense is possible, while still having respect and dignity, having responsibility, for everyone in the mind as well as in the heart.
