What is Sustainability

Which of the following best summarizes sustainability?

• Sustainability is meeting our current needs without making things worse for our kids, grandkids, and great grandkids (all the future generations)

•  Sustainability is meeting our current needs and who cares if it messes things up for the future generations 

What does she mean when she says that many of the resources we depend on can "replenish"?

• We can buy more of them

• Once they are gone, they don't come back

• The resource has the ability to make more of itself

How do you achieve equilibrium for the "replacement rate"?

• Using resources at a faster rate than they can replenish

• Using resources at a slower rate than they can replenish

• Using resources at the same rate as they can replenish

How have humans been doing with our resources over the last few decades?

• Horrible! We are using resources faster than they can replenish

• Okay...we have been using resources around the same rate at which they can replenish

• Great! We are using resources slower than they can replenish

True or false: The things we do in our country with resources can impact people all around the world

• True

• False

What are the 3 E's of environmental sustainability?

• Environment

• Economic

• Equality

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  Equity

• Ecological