This week I wanted to change it up again and share my answers to the questions I’ve been asking others throughout these past weeks. I’ll share why our planet itself makes sustainability important and why I feel such a need to live in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does Sustainability mean to you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n To me, sustainability is giving our future generations an equal and equitable life as those who lived before them. This can be achieved by ensuring that environmental, economic, and social needs are all balanced in a way that humans and our interconnected ecosystem can continue to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why does it matter?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sustainability is so important to us and our planet because is the right thing to do. I always think of how lucky we are to be alive on this planet. Just think of all the planets that we know of that don\u2019t have one thing suitable for life. But here we are on a planet that supports numerous kinds of life. And here we are, the result of so many things working out perfectly to evolve to us. We wouldn\u2019t be here if it weren\u2019t for all of it. We breathe out what plants need and we breathe in what plants give. We drink from what the sky drop and plants grow from it too. Our water and our air is made of the right composition of elements to support of life. Our planet\u2019s ecosystem evolved in such an interconnected, balanced, and fragile way over the course of over 4 billion years, so what begins to happen when it\u2019s all the sudden handed almost 8 billion people, who rely on fossil fuel emitting corporations? The fragile balance begins to fall out of wack. On a geologic timescale, our population growth and Industrial Revolution happened in a geologic instant. Sustainability is important because the Earth is good in and of itself, and it is only right to ensure that it continues being able to sustain not only future human life, but everything within our interconnected ecosystem as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n