Sustainability

Sustainability, is something the whole world is talking about, except Malaysia. Here, we only talk about sodomy, argue over a Word, murdered or suicided......

Seriously.

Ok, let's talk about sustainability now. It's the capacity to endure. Means, the capacity for us to live.

We are greedy. We always want more. If we keep living like this, the environment is not sustainability. To maintain sustainability, is different from fighting global warming.

Global warming, not only always been debated, but being commercialized, politicized

and even religion-ized. But sustainability, is much more serious and real, relatively. Cause obviously, we have limited resources of energy and foods.

To fulfill our greedy 'needs', the manufacturers always have to excessively produce things, and promote them in various ways, to instill consumerism in us.

As 'smart consumers', we don't like to pay for the real price of things. We want things with lower price. Therefore, the manufacturer have to really mass produce them, to make the supply more than demand, in order to bring down the price. The problem is, when the supply more than demand, things are really excessive, creating wastage.

So the wastage piled up, and we won't use them. Cause they will become 'old-fashioned' products after some time. In the end, they will be thrown away. For past decades, this was not a big issue, cause the 'old-fashioned' products will be used in third world countries, cause it's affordable for them compared to the newer products. Now, with the rise of China, everything suddenly become very affordable. The third world countries don't need to use the affordable old-fashioned products anymore, cause they are now afford to use the up-to-date ones.

So, the wastage problem is becoming more serious. When the wastage problem continue to grow, the sustainability issue is rising. How much more wastage can we afford to creating wastage like this? How many more years can the resources on earth can sustain?

Then, there's fuel issue. Since so many people are owning their own transportations now, like cars and motorcycles; some even have their private jets and helicopters, how many more years can the oil supply on earth can sustain?

Energy efficiency and alternative energy sources now are not only about global warming, carbon footprint anymore. It's about sustainability!

We cannot afford to use the fuel the way we are using it now, and comforting ourselves with excuses like 'global warming is not real, or not proven, so why cares?' kind of attitude.

And when we talk about economy, sustainability is important also. Now the economy, globally, is moving on with the help of stimulus and more debts. How long more the current s0-called stable economy can sustain? Do we not learn anything from the economy crisis during 2008?

I think, not only we didn't learn anything from it, we continue to deepen the problems, and covering it with more bubbles. And we think, the crisis is over, economy depression is a hoax! Get over it!

The real question is: How long more the China can continue to buy the debts of America? What will happen if one day, China also face economy crisis like America, and that time, nobody is able to buy the debts of China (obviously, America is already broke)?

Sustainability is the real issue we are facing now, globally. Think about it.