When beginning to examine sustainability, we need to ask ourselves “what is at stake?”
- Our traditional pointers of economics are pointing us completely in the wrong direction.
Ultimately, what drives sustainable development?
Answer: the desire to live well
But to “live well” sustainably is to live within the limits of this lifetime.
“Limits” are not really something that is in the human heart. We don’t have dreams about limits; we have dreams and desires of possibilities and the boundless endless paths of our future.
We need to move forward from talking about limits, to things that resonate within people’s hearts.
We need to talk about sustainability as a positive and well living situation, not one in which mirrors our present day with things taken out and missing.
Things are not really “things” but our relationships with them. Our language and interaction and conversations about and with these physical things. And this meaning is simply our construction.
The creative arts have a strong role to play, we need to create space, chaotic space, where it is possible to tear down old constructs and ideas and find new voices
The first step to being sustainable is thinking sustainable, and the first step to thinking sustainable is to create chaos in which our new ideas can form.
“We need to create space, chaotic space, where it is possible to tear down old constructs and ideas and find new voices “
Let us walk into this chaos with excitement and anticipation.
