Anyway, one of the funny things to watch over the last 20 years has been how the business world and non-profit world started using the words sustainable/sustainability instead of profitable/staying in operation, totally divorced from the biogeophysical contact.
While looking over a Grants.gov announcement today i noticed a new Orwellian twist (" DOD Department of Defense Maintenance and Sustainment R&D Projects Grant")
Yes dear friends, "sustainment". It is apparently de rigueur in DOD circles now as evidenced by a google search using the word shows. It apparently means maintenance & support.
As scarcity and economic disparity and privitization increase, etc. etc. i wonder how long it will be before something replaces "resiliency" for the sustainability folks (properly so called, i.e. biogeophysically grounded use of the word) finally just move to saying "survival"?
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