Frases

"To call a practice or system unsustainable is not just to lodge an objection based on aesthetics, say, or fairness or some ideal of environmental rectitude. What it means is that the practice or process can’t go on indefinitely because it is destroying the very conditions on which it depends. It means that, as the Marxists used to say, there are internal contradictions that sooner or later will lead to a breakdown."

- ver em Michael Pollan - Agriculture - Disease Resistant Staph - Concentrated animal Feed Operations - Sustainability - New York Times

"It would take more than five Earths to be able to sustain the world population if everyone consumed resources at the same rate as the United States, according to the New Economics Foundation (NEF)."

- ver em Natural News

PS: as frases são demasiado boas para não serem destacadas assim, mas o que os artigos nos dizem é mesmo relevante - o primeiro, o abuso dos adubos, dos antibióticos, etc. na produção agro-pecuária; o segundo, relata as conclusões de um estudo da News Economics Foundation sobre o nível de sustentabilidade da Terra face a diferentes cenários de evolução dos padrões de consumo.