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To: Shirerwasright
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

Can someone define what the word sustainable means? Does it mean that once something is made, it never needs to be taken care of, or is that self sustaining? If its not self sustaining, does that mean it needs to be sustained by someone? If its sustained by someone, doesn't that mean its not sustainable, but just needs maintenance like everything else?

Or does it have something to do with the amount of effort or resources it takes to maintain or produce something. If so, does that mean it should be something that takes less work to create and maintain? If thats the case, then what they mean is that we just need to have robots that build other robots that produce and maintain everything so we can all sit on our butt and do nothing while something else sustains us.

If so, would that be the definition of liberalism?

23 posted on 03/31/2008 7:49:30 PM PDT by Lowcountry (RIP: Peterdanbrokaw)
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To: Lowcountry

Liberalsim is not “sustainable.” That’s one reason they like to call themselves “progressive” now....


24 posted on 03/31/2008 7:58:52 PM PDT by clintonh8r (An Obamanation would be an abomination...."A typical white person.")
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To: Lowcountry

“Sustainable” means making stuff out of the kind of stuff that you will never, ever run out of, and which then can be given to poor people when you are finished using it. Oil is not sustainable because we will run out of it eventually and only you can use it after you buy it, but hemp shirts are, because we will never run out of hemp in a perfect world, and you can give your used hemp shirts to homeless people when you’ve had enough fun with them, and you can even teach people in lesser-developed nations to make their own hemp shirts using just the sticks and stones and hemp they already have around them, so they won’t be dependent on exploitative corporate technologies, and then.....


27 posted on 03/31/2008 9:57:10 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: Lowcountry
Sustainable is a intellectual hippie term for products and food stuffs of crappy quality...

Simply put:

Sustainable = POS product or food that tastes like cow poop.

30 posted on 02/18/2010 7:36:36 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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