WISDOM IN SPACE AND TIME

The people over years have learned how to make a sustainable living from the available resources. That wisdom had greater meaning for sustainable life on earth eg., the way of life of Bushmen of Kalahari or Eskimos of the circumpolar region in the North. If the “clever” people from lower latitudes are sent to those places, all the resources would exhaust within no time. Because, our definition of sustainability is “too much sustainability”, those places become inhabitable within no time, for not only humans but for all life existing there. In the past all the places on earth were sustainable. There is a lot to learn from each place how the practices worked earlier. The history still exists in every place, just open up and learn to create a sustainable present and future.

THE HYPE OF FUTURE

People started enjoying things of future. This is possible through "credit". This leads to over exploitation of resources at present at the cost of future generations. An young IT employee could able to purchase an house due to high salaries, other wise he would have purchased the same house say after 20 years of hard work. Such things are possible only by human beings. All other living things live in the present, but man is able to exploit the future of our children too. This system leads to imbalance on earth. This is only an "Hype" already we are witness to how it is collapsing.

INCOME AND SUSTAINABILITY

The development interventions should always look at the short and long term impacts. A micro-finance institute should look beyond the payment of loans and mere economic development of its stakeholders. The source of income is most often from the immediate environment directly or indirectly. The access to resources by one stakeholder might impact access of the same by another. The resources might get damaged sometimes beyond sustainability in the process of maximizing income. The development should be always non-exploitative and sustainable. One should analyze and relate the income and source, while formulating the programs. Yes, this principle being looked at a micro-scale is also relevant to any other action / activities at Meso- or Macro- Levels. Income term does not exist in nature, it is only a creation by human beings, leading to non-sustainable development.

HUMAN BEINGS PURPOSE OF LIVING

Human beings existing on earth is part of the evolutionary process and are not the original creation of God. Even God may not be in the form of human being. All the knowledge acquired by human beings in ones own life time is very little. Human beings are selfish, most often the priority of all acts are of concern to themselves. Sustainability is the term created by human beings for their own sustainability, in the process some lucky species and resources do sustain. Human beings together constitute one big living thing sole purpose is the sustainability of this living thing.

SUSTAINABILITY OF INTEREST

Most often the definition of sustainability is explained in terms of interest. Interest sustains or interest makes a resource unsustainable ? ! Too much interest is selfishness? The over exploitation of resources, leading to unsustainability of that resource. If all the animals in a Jungle one day were taught about sustainability as do humans think. One alpha male tiger herded all the animals it can eat, into one corner as a shepherd does put the sheep in a pen at the end of the day. Denying the right to other tigers as it owns them now. The super-sustainability of this tiger is achieved for generations and also for its progeny. The sustianable interest of one tiger is the non-sustainable aspect for other tigers. Similarly, if all the animals have thought about their sustainability similarly, what would have been the sustainability of earth ? (Note: The sustainability defined here is as perceived by the most "interested" people).