GMS 802 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wced, Overconsumption, Triple Bottom Line
14 Jan 2016
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From very early civilizations, we have inherited a vision of the planet as a virtually unlimited space where expansion, production, consumption, and development are positive paradigms for the progress of civilization. In recent years, many environmental scientists, philosophers, and ecologists, among others, have challenged this expansive view of the earth. Environmental sustainability has become a buzzword/phrase, in at least the industrialized nations whose industries and populations consume vast amounts of natural resources and engage in activities that affect and even harm air, water, soil, and plant/animal life. Legislative and social pressures, and self-awareness, have led companies of all sizes to consider the impacts of their activities on the natural environment. Although there is a scientific majority consensus that the environment crisis is real, the voice of dissenters is amplified through the hope that this is not a real problem. To sustain something means to maintain, nourish, or encourage its existence, and/or to strengthen or improve it.
