What is the difference between sustainability and environmentalism?
Many see sustainability from an environmental perspective, and it certainly does involve many environmental problems (most of which are akin to alarm clocks screaming to get us up). From oil spills, deforestation of the Amazon and the loss of biodiversity, to events like Chernobyl, the impact we have on the environment is non argumentative. Although there is academic debate over the cause of global warming, these arguments are splitting hairs. The point is that the world is becoming a much less comfortable place to be. Change needs to happen and has even been whispered at since the late 1960’s. Nowadays, this change is being realized as an entire shift in paradigm, that utlizes and heeds the entire framework of ideas and beliefs of the western culture. Essentially, many feel that as the world currently turns according to economic rules, the changes required at this stage involve practices in production, consumption and governance (5). The changes required will need to make sustainable
