23 January 2012

The Unsustainability of Sustainable's Usage


XKCD nails it with this cartoon. Adding the word development after 'sustainable' makes the cartoon all too perfect.

1 comments:

Stephanie said...

oy.  The word "sustainable" is smoke and mirrors, or maybe, at best, honest wishful thinking.  I wonder why we never heard the words "sustainable capitalism" or "sustainable privatization?"   That would be a more precise way to describe what people are hoping and asking for.  But the pairing of those words together, while less of an obfuscation about the ideological agenda that is being promoted, is about as oxymoronic as you can get.  It just makes no sense.