8812+Journal

This is my first journal entry. I will start with some parodies of sustainability, the meaning of sustainable and hopefully the readers will see that sustainability, is not something that can be bought.

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Week 1,2 and3.) The first few weeks of this semester have been a bit of an information gathering cluster session for me. Where I have basically just tried to gain as much insight as possible in relation to the core unit objectives, but at the same time push the boundaries of the overriding philosophies contained within the course outline.

This may be considered a little stupid, and at times tangential however my main ambition in this unit is to discover whether the decisions we are making as a society can really be effectively maintained by future generations. I really do believe that although it is in our best intention of giving it a real shot to make things better for future generations, evolutionary principle dictates that whatever we do nature will decide for us and that our highest level of sub-conscience thought cannot perceive the future enough for us to be able to shift our time-space reality in any particular direction.

Theories of being and environmental perspectives show us that there are two definite view points in relation to this. One is that our interaction on the environment is dependent on us we can change the environment and the other is that the environment does not depend on us.

Either way environment and humans are in some sort of equilibrium and what we do has an effect on other human beings because we are of the same species. If however, we were to take the theory of co-evolution of the human species. The idea that we did not all come from Africa then this raises many question about how we came to be.

Our farming practice and our distinct knowledge of order in society and environment do not necessarily make us smarter than any other species of animal it is just our cells have become more specialised and we have over many millenia evolved the ability to use resources to our advantage. Now we are coming into a dawn of energy and food, which has pushed the ability of our environment to interact with us in a way that it has never done before.

Is this sustainability? I am not so sure. What is sustainability. This is one of the main questions I keep asking myself because I genuinely do not know! And I believe that as a concept most people like to think they know what it means, yet I think the notion of sustainability is more of an idealistic vision of how people would like things to be. Like two parallel lines they never actually meet up although they look like they will. the vision of sustainability only works similar to that of the carbon trading we set a price that reflects stakeholder standards.

Politics sees to it that no matter what happens, it becomes about winning votes and not actually about reducing carbon inputs. This is reflected in the way that Australia is now trading or will start trading carbon credits with Europe...

Week 4.) The challenge has been set. To come up with a definition of sustainability... What it means to politicians, ordinary citizens, corporations, ngo's etc. The importance is that by having a set definition for it...

Sustainable definition : Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level. Difficulty of definition, certain rate or level. These are not definite measures...

How do we define



Week 5.) This week focused on:
 * Agents of change: civil society organisations and the business sector **


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