What Does Sustainability Mean to You?

Sustainability is our only option as a means to living within the earth's natural carrying capacity for natural resources, it is the only realistic way to address our requirements as human beings, acknowledging the limits of the natural environment. Sustainability is the only way if implemented locally worldwide for restoring the balance of the earth and the ecosystems if we are to break out of the current self serving exploitatory and destructive system.

It means decentralization of government powers over natural resources, which also means huge shifts in global trading policies from capitalist gains to fair trading and sustainable agriculture, geomineral extracts and forestry in addition to using cleaner fuel and energy sources. The current governmental powers at be are too hooked on centralization of power, Federal Financing systems and protecting profit and investments in Bio technologies and Pharmaceuticals via Codex Alimentarius Trade Commissions and other Global Policies that negate human health and the health of the Planets' Biosphere. This only perpetuates debt, world hunger and human suffering as well as severe exploitation of the natural environment. It is in our hands worldwide to change such activities and make sustainability a localized community experience, protecting our access to wholefood and organic produce raising awareness that these outlets are highly endangered via the Codex Alimentarius Trade Commission and other Governmental Policies, that are threatened by the growing demand for organic and alternative health therapy products. By campaigning for fairer regulations on vitamins, minerals, alternative health and organic produce, we can bring together communal food and energy production via localized communally effective and socially beneficial movements, the only viable strategy to keep sustainability alive is through our efforts to initiate local organic food growing projects in our towns and cities and schools, farmers markets, roof gardens, balconies, parks and more along with communally organized alternative energy projects while more and more people are finding through research that the FDA and the European FSA are not organizations that serve human health interests instead they are backed by and serve the Pharmaceuticals and Bio technologies.

I do not see many people presenting solutions in the current crisis. It is important in this time to make connections with like minded people open to exploring proactive intelligent and ecological ways towards living sustainably in addition to providing viable sustainable strategies and solutions which need to be urgently addressed politically and economically. I seek to share, explore and create solutions together as an active community in a economic and political climate that is in serious conflict because it will not let go of its self serving ways, it refuses to address our needs and limits within the natural environment, therefore becoming harmful to humanity and the planet.

What are your specific interests regarding sustainability, politics, economics, and social issues?

I see an urgency towards strengthening local communities in cities, rural areas and suburbs to address many of the complex social problems, capitalism has fractured social communities to the point people feel rather disenchanted and dis empowered. There is a need to create new social hubs that concentrate on building local sustainable resources, this could help remedy many social issues and problems. My concerns are not to support current political parties but to create new and forward thinking alternatives that operate in pioneering ways which consider and factor in Ecological harvesting of fuel, energy and natural resources in a sustainable way.

Current political systems are far too dictated by economics based on unsustainable systems, unfortunately political choices are made by the pressures they themselves create within the unsustainable economy. We have the mammoth task of creating a new system that takes into account that which governments are ignoring for convenience yet paradoxically in doing so they are simply only delaying the inevitable that requires urgent attention, with the current environmental earth changes afoot.

Governments need to let go of centralization of resources, invest only in sustainability to address a new form of economics that takes into account living within the earths natural carrying capacity. Unfortunately the governments decisions need to be regulated yet there is no body available to do so, so we need to make it our job as citizens of the planet to address that which is not being taken care of politically. We can do this via actively creating localized sustainable solutions for managing our food, water, fuel, energy with communal effort, through education networking, writing, campaigning and physically creating communal sustainability hubs everywhere.

i do not submit my perspective as the ultimate answer as there are many solutions and ideas we can work on collectively, so I invite anyone else who wish to address these questions and share their views on these subjects please feel free to add, I will be podcasting on this issue and any thoughts by other Evolvers will be read out and shared.