User:Barryjb

Becoming Sustainable
'''There are several ways to become sustainable. First I had to understand what sustainable meant. Below is what I found in Webster's: Full Definition of sustainable 1
 * capable of being sustained

2 a : of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged b : of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods

I believe humans can figure out how to sustain ourselves without the destruction and / or depletion of the planet we live on. Currently, the best minds available say that in their opinion we are using far to much of the planets resources way to quickly to sustain our planet for very long (in planet terms). Each of us doing our part to become more sustainable can add up to a tremendous shift in the overall lifestyle trend on our planet. We don't even have to be perfect or 'all in' to make a difference. I believe the biggest determining factor is billions of us doing our part. I am not sure how many people actually are doing something sustainable in their life at present but I would guess it would be in the millions, maybe at the most 450 or 500 million people. I am talking about doing things like recycling, using solar power, wind power, hydro-electric power, reusing 'things', buying used 'things', living 'small', not buying 'things', investing in people instead of 'things'. This is a completely different way of thinking about our society and how we live on our planet for most people. There have been many many books and articles written by much more intelligent people than me about this subject. I don't pretend to know anywhere near as much about this subject than 99% of those people. Along with all of those people I do have one thing in common, a steadfast belief and trust that we can and will become a sustainable society providing the generations to come a model of what NOT to do along with what is BEST to do for our planet.