Sustainability Documentary

I am now dedicating the rest of my life to study sustainability staring with my PhD research in sustainability banking.

i swear at least half of this documentary is just long shots with no speaking

Lowkey, the majority of this video is basically the same thing being repeated over and over again using similar words. Good luck to all who are doing a research paper on this. You're (not) gonna have fun.

27:56 important parts begins

This documentary does a very good job of blurring the lines and creating confusion, @14:05 where they define sustainability they leave out a critical point or rather they tippy toe around it ... The idea to sustain, meaning to hold or maintain. That is the critical point. Sustainability means to keep systems as they are. Now in context of complexity, this is not possible. Complexity best shows itself in ecosystems, economies and societies. A complex system are self organizing and adaptive to influences and changes, you apply a change the complex system will adapt to compensate. This being particularly prevalent in ecosystems, however economies are also great examples. If you look at Zimbabwe during the Mugabe years, the economy did not collapse, the currency did. The economy adapted and self organised into a informal black market economy. So getting back to the concept of sustainability, to sustain a complex system requires huge amount of energy, and the energy requirement will perpetually increase with each cycle. If we look at conventional agriculture (which should be correctly termed sustainable agriculture), requires the land to be reset each year for planting. That reset is done through tilling, each year bigger and bigger tractors are required to till deeper and deeper to achieve the same "sustainable" harvest. Then nutrients need to be added to sustain the these plants, year on year. This is all a huge amount of energy to produce the same sustainable amount of food. There is a point where the system will fail ...

I'm doing this for class and my teacher said capture the big ideas in your notes so I skipped every 5-10 minutes and took notes for 1 minute of it. I got an A lol.

so who's here due to the assignment of UNGS? 😂

Beautiful:,)

mantap

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I love this! This is such a great overview on sustainability and it’s not too long either! I have my own channel where I talk about sustainability and climate change. I try to keep things short and to the point. It’s great to see more good resources and FACTS about these issues.

I don't understand how they can talk of sustainability without addressing constant growth of human population. How is that sustainable?

Awsm ❤️

I don’t understand this video all I want to know is What exactly is sustainability?

Hi sa mga EBA jan😂

The documentary Sustainability was a different look on sustainability as a whole instead of just one area. The documentary explains that since the industrial revolution and because of the over consumptions of products earth will no longer be able to sustain itself. Companies are over producing and because they overproduce, we over consume. Society are destroying the ecology by out linear economy model instead of circular. Instead of switching between different types of energy people will keep using one main source of energy, such as coal. This was a completely different look instead of just focusing on plastic I enjoyed how it gives you better outlook on how we need to change the macro to save the environment not the micro.

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Mashaallh

sustainability is about the ability of an intelligent system to successfully anticipate and act for long term success, there is no such thing as sustainability whenever you extrapolate linearly from current practices. If you look at intelligent systems, there is difficulty with combinatorial explosion in long term and uncertainty due to chaos. longer term intelligence also has longer delay times in its feedback so it takes longer to learn from mistakes. You have to engineer the system of decision making so that it is able to deal with long term effects better.

Great, as always