That catch word (unsustainable) is being used to define just about all of everything, from the environment as it now is, to the US debt, to the spending spree of Washington, to the capitalistic system, and even our sustainable power is unsustainable.  College Sports too cannot be sustained, but ends up as being unsustainable.

Our population growth is unsustainable.

Our use of fossil fuels is unsustainable.

Our economic system is unsustainable.

Our Western Lifestyle is now unsustainable.

Our farming practices are unsustainable.

Yes, those sustainable experts say we’ve got unsustainable problems.

Life is unsustainable.   The earth is said to be unsustainable.  Everything changes.  The campaign of Obama was all about change.   Unsustainable changes.

Where is some stability?

I could not find a reference to the United Nations as being unsustainable, nor to the actions of tree huggers, the Fish and Wildlife Agency, the EPA, and the bureaucrats at the National Education Association.   So, are we to conclude that the experts at those places are sustainable?   Are they the only stable ones we can count on as being sustainable?

Bear with me, I’m just having some fun with a very popular catch word.   We hear unsustainable continually, and it invokes the fear that if something does not change in the way we do business, then it will all far apart real quick.   If the economic system is not totally changed, then it will be bananas for all of us.   If the industrial complex does not change pronto, then the earth will reach the tipping point of a hockey stick.   If the banking business does not change real quick, then . . . well then governments will have to change it.   If the agriculture industry does not change, then the food supply will be unsustainable and wear thin.

Go back in history a bit.

Once upon a time, there were millions of women sitting at booths listening to calls and changing the male and female plugs around to route those calls to the correct intended party.   Was it a belief then that telephone operators were unsustainable?

Once upon a time transportation to school was by horse or foot power.   Could the children continue to make those unsustainable treks?

Once upon a time it took months of battling miserable weather and endangering one’s life to cross the oceans.   Then the Titanic in all of it’s designed sustainable beauty and magnificence became unsustainable and fell apart.

Once upon a time men battled each other with swords.   Country’s stood and others were unsustainable.

Once upon a time women hung the clothes on unsustainable ropes in the back yard to dry in the sustainable sun.

What were the experts saying about sustaining the back yard ropes?

No, unsustainable had not been invented yet.  But this is 2009, not 1909, 1809 or 1609.   How smart the experts have become endlessly working at making life sustainable, at making the environment sustainable, at making economies sustainable.   These very smart intelligent scientific experts say the scientific consensus way to make life on the earth sustainable is to take us back to those times when life changed as it became “unsustainable” hanging clothes to dry and going through telephone operators to chat with relatives, friends and neighbors, and what about those swords that kill.

After Rachel Carson wrote the book “Silent Spring”  the world changed but left millions to be unsustainable and die of Malaria.

The earth in all its magnificence will still be here just as sustainable before unsustainable political new world order agendas became popular.

Unsustainable: “not able to be maintained or supported in the future, esp. without causing damage or depletion of a resource”

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