The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle
Jamais CascioFutures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.
Jamais CascioA good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
Jamais CascioEverything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.
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