Jamais Cascio Quotes About Sustainability

Quotes about: Sustainability

• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

  Jamais Cascio

  Goal, Survival, Resilience

• Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

  Jamais Cascio

  Mean, Goal, Political

• Everything 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.

  Jamais Cascio

  Thinking, Agriculture, Water

• 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 Cascio

  Future, Ideas, Work Out

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