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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (27225)8/28/2006 7:59:32 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
I don't think that sustainable development requires stagnant technology, even in the ideologue version, but at least the more extreme version of it is a lot more static than I would like.

This might just be a classic case of taking the extreme supporters of an idea, and using their statements against the whole idea.

For an example of a somewhat extreme statement(from the talk page of "Sustainability" at wikipedia)

"...So far as I can see, a sustainable society will have to be as different from our society as an agricultural society was from a hunter-gatherer society. And, just as no one in a hunter gatherer socity could envisage what an agricultural society would look like so no one in our society can envisage what a sustainable society would look like. All we know is that we have to get rid of our cars, our planes, our defence systems, our chemical and energy intensive agriculutrer and so on and so on. But what would a society without these things look like? How would we gain meaning in our lives. (One fortunate thing is that NEF ... see Marks in refs ... has now shown that such a thing is possible without reducing the quality of our lives.) How to create a climate of innovation and learning without any blueprint, without any central authority being able to say where we are going? Now, this was the very question that Smaith and Hayek sought to answer. Their answer - the marketplace - does not, and cannot, work..."

en.wikipedia.org

How would you define - "Sustainable development"?
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