Define sustainability and sustainable development. What is a sustainable society?
What will be an ideal response?
"A system or process . . . that can be continued indefinitely, without depleting any of the material or energy resources required to keep it running." By this definition, it would be impossible to run a modern society on fossil fuels. (The rate at which fossil fuels are created is so slow that almost any rate of use would exceed the rate of creation.)
"A sustainable society is a society in balance with the natural world." It is possible for a sustainable society to continue indefinitely because it does not deplete its resource base or produce pollutants in excess of nature's ability to absorb/process them.
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A) North American English was isolated in its evolution from British English. B) North American English borrowed terminology from the indigenous population. C) Noah Webster's agenda was to develop a uniquely American dialect of English as part of the American identity. D) Noah Webster's agenda was to develop a language that held less cultural dependence on the British. E) Noah Webster's agenda sought to preserve the pronunciation of "proper" English.