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Categories of unsustainability based on: endangering of survival of humans impairing human health causing extinction

Categories of unsustainability based on: endangering of survival of humans impairing human health causing extinction or violating human rights reducing quality of life/consequences for morals/values

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Categories of unsustainability based on: endangering of survival of humans impairing human health causing extinction

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  1. Categories of unsustainability based on: • endangering of survival of humans • impairing human health • causing extinction or violating human rights • reducing quality of life/consequences for morals/values • Level IV issues are important but convolute extreme survival issues with social justice issues. “Framing the Elusive Concept of Sustainability: A Sustainability Hierarchy” http://www.forestry.umn.edu/prod/groups/cfans/@pub/@cfans/@forestry/documents/asset/cfans_asset_250560.pdf

  2. Sustainability within a social context: • the capacity to endure • long-term wellbeing of humans • conserving natural resources

  3. Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  4. Capacity for being continued • Living and working in ways that do not hinder nor compromise future generations ability to enjoy a quality of life greater than or equal to our own • Sustainability spectrum ranging from responsible environmental/labor practices --------poverty reduction.

  5. Three Pillars1. Environmental (protection)2. Social (equity)3. Economic (viability) • Sustainable conditions are dynamic-not static. • Sustainability is the cumulative impact of many individual systems influenced by socioeconomics.

  6. Is it possible to get bigger and better without the negative impacts? • Maybe. It depends on semantics (as all does). We can have sustainable practices, we cannot have sustainable growth (incredibly slow).

  7. Triple Bottom Line: • Economic prosperity • Environmental quality • Social equity

  8. Each generation is entitled to interest on natural capital but principle should be handed on unimpaired.

  9. Maybe think, “what if others acted in the same manner?”

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