Sustainability

  (Vanderbilt University Blog, 2013)

Sustainability is a very in-depth idea of keeping everything in order. Through doing particular things within each group, you keep the world sustainable. 

I've found that out of the three diagrams of sustainability, I agree with all, but mainly the 3-overlapping circles. Economy, Society, and Environment work together. They need each other and the visual circle in the middle of all three is the 'perfect' sustainable world. 

I think that a sustainable world is close to impossible. I do not think that we - humans, are able to exist peacefully, have a perfect society, and not harm our environment. Why? Because we do not care enough to keep our world safe. We as humans get upset when we have law-breakers. When we have unethical people making the world disgusting. We forget that we - teachers, families, politicians, etc., that make those people. We enforce punishment, but we don't enforce that the websites, or movies and such be less accessible.

No, I don’t have a thousand different techniques or theories to fix these problems. I personally think that our world is going to get worse. That we are not going to be sustainable. And why do I propose such a preposterous notion?

Because this world is going to end. Many people will say it is a holocaust. I say it is the rapture, followed by the tribulation. It’s not a soft, happy word. Tribulation. A seven-year reign in which the Antichrist sucks as many people into his trap as he can. This world is going to end – and it is our responsibility, as Christians, as the young people of this world, to bring as many people to Christ as we can. To be aware that this world is going to get worse and accept responsibility, because when we become Christians, we are obliged to take up our crosses – DAILY – and follow God.

“Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of Life.” Revelation 2:10

                                                                                                            

 (Willard, 2013)

 

3- Nested Dependencies

"If you were to ask a maritime fisherman whether the devastating collapse of the cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland was an environmental disaster, a social disaster, or an economic disaster, he would say, “Yes.” The 3-nested-dependencies model reflects this co-dependent reality. It shows that human society is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment—that without food, clean water, fresh air, fertile soil, and other natural resources, we’re cooked."  (Willard, 2013)

3-Overlapping-Circles "The overlapping-circles model of sustainability acknowledges the intersection of economic, environmental, and social factors. Depending on our mindset, we re-size the circles to show that one factor is more dominant than the other two. For example, some business leaders prefer to show the economy as the largest circle because it is the most important to their success and it makes their world go round.

(Willard, 2013)

"They draw society as the second largest circle because that is where their customers and other important stakeholders live. The environment would then be the smallest because it is the most external to standard business metrics. Unfortunately, this model implies that the economy can exist independently of society and the environment—that the part of the red circle that does not overlap with the blue and green circles has an existence of its own." (Willard, 2013)

 (Willard, 2013)

 

3-Legged Sustainability Stool

"For years, I have used the adjacent slide to illustrate the common three dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social / cultural. The 3-legged stool metaphor reinforces the three dimensions that are required for us to enjoy a high quality of life— and shows that society is unstable if one of them is weak. The downside of this metaphor is that the economic, environmental, and social legs look separate and equal." (Willard, 2013)