Four Questions for a Sustainable Society: Is it Repeatable?

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Repeatability is a lot like sustainability, but it is not the same thing. Repeatability is to sustainability what fairness is to justice. When we ask, “Is this repeatable?” we expect a conditional answer. When we use repeatability as a criterion, we expect to apply it in different ways under different circumstances.

Sustainability is an important ideal. The concept forms the basis for all our efforts to protect our habitat. It is also a perfectly impossible goal.

If nature teaches us anything, it is that nothing is truly sustainable. In the course of time, everything changes.

Repeatability can be visualized when sustainability cannot.

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