Sustainability

A Wisconsin website with all the answers.

Sustainability sounds like such a good idea - we all want to be able to keep our standard of living and such, right?

The problem is in the definition - "sustainability" is defined as doing everything in a way so as to meet the standards of people who know better than we do what is "good" for us and for the planet.

Example - from the "Energy and Climate Change" link:

What is Energy & Climate Change?  Climate change is the long-term, significant change in the temperature, weather patterns, glaciation, and related aspects of the global climate system.  It is sometimes misnamed “global warming.”  Global climate has changed several times in earth history, but the current change differs from previous ones primarily because it is now generally agreed that human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, is a primary cause of this change.  Energy is linked to climate change via the fossil fuels being burned because they produce greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, which acts like a blanket in the atmosphere to keep heat in, thus raising the average global temperature.

 It sounds so plausible - until you find out that the only ones who "generally agree" that human activity is responsible are the Agenda 21 types who think the Earth would be better off with about 80% of the population eliminated...