There are many definitions of sustainable development, but the most commonly utilized comes from the Bruntland Report of 1987 (also known as Our Common Future), which defines sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”[1] Though it has been over twenty years since this term was first popularized, it is arguably the case that sustainable development has yet to be realized. Much like ARAMIS, and many other projects, sustainable development has shifted between the worlds of ideas to being manifest in a multitude of projects, never really coming into full life. It has managed to enroll many actors, and has lost many more along the way. Being coopted by many, it has been shaped and reformed profusely.
Chris
12/18/2013 01:11:35 pm
It's hard to get everyone in the world to consider anything but anthropocentrism. Most people live in whatever society they are born into, socialist, communist, capitalist, whatever, and make the best of their lives. With this in mind, the question becomes what makes those societies the way they are? Finding what made a democracy a democracy once, what made a communist regime take power, is to find what will make the future our future, sustainable or status quo. I will say there is generally violence involved in the change of power, and a change of power is probably what it requires for the the world to adopt sustainable development. Top-down change, where people live in a world of sustainable development because its the one they were born into. What costs are associated with such a world, and would that even be a free world? Is a world where people aren't free but live sustainably for future generations, like the one proposed in iRobot, a world that is worth living in? Who decides?
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Chris
12/18/2013 01:12:43 pm
I'd like to add a mention of Native American cultures, what made them as biocentric as they were?
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