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Sustainability is related to the quality of life in a community -- whether the economic,
social and environmental systems that make up the community are providing a healthy, productive,
meaningful life for all community residents, present and future.
Sustainability requires managing all households -- individual, community, national, and global -- in ways that ensure
that our economy and society can continue to exist without destroying the natural environment on which we all depend.
The limits of sustainability are limits to consumption. Our consumption is limited because the things that we consume
are limited in supply. There are only so many acres of forest for timber, only so many rivers to be dammed for
hydroelectricity, only so much habitat for wildlife, only one atmosphere. Non-renewable resources are also limited
over time.
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Exposed aerial roots in the wetlands of the Black River
Morass.
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