The turn to sustainability 

 

The turn to sustainability gives Pixecol hope.  It is our expression for the change of direction we're helping people choose.  It puts all on a path to a durable peace.

The turn to sustainability is sought by those who conclude that humans rightly are stewards concerned about and choosing for the welfare of future generations.  The turn to sustainability is logical to all who cannot be certain that divine intervention will clean up serious messes we make, replace what we deplete and repair or recreate what we break - or make it all irrelevant.  The turn to sustainability will benefit all in some ways or others, or won't be the turn to sustainability.

When we turn to sustainability, we become ever more comprehensively considerate And, therefore,

 

curious; we again wonder about everything.  It's as if we've broken a spell.

Turning to sustainability, we consider the suitability of the systems, tools and methods upon which we (try to) rely.
Many of them are persistent hand-me-downs from days gone by, never meant to perform as we now ask.  Others are new and too narrow or flimsy to serve for long.
Which ones give us what we really need and want for each other and our descendants?
Finding some suitable, we then consider all the input they require and all the output they produce.  We ask if supplies are sufficient or insufficient, renewable or nonrenewable. We ask if away continues to be the place most of the worn out, unpleasant and unwanted output goes.

Noting the enormity of both subsidies and externalities that obscure ugly truths about our ways, we begin to think more

 

seriously about utilizing biospheric processes and renewable resources, about recycling and about doing more with less.

When we turn to sustainability, we choose to restrict, if not discontinue, use of what is unsuitable, of what is running on empty (or certainly will be) and of what introduces too much of what's unpleasant and unwanted.  Ones who have turned cultivate ecological consciousness and innovate to cooperate more with the biosphere and to replace what we have given up with better, updated versions of systems, tools and methods we can't do without. 

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