2. Sustainability
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• Justice
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• Conserve
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• Econ
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• Kirschenmann
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Agricultural Sustainability – 2
• Sustainability is often defined as “meeting the needs of today
without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs” (The Brundtland Commission, 1987).
• Stated another way “Humanity has the ability to make
development sustainable to ensure that it meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs” (The Brundtland
Commission, 1987).
3. Intergenerational Justice
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Agricultural Sustainability – 3
• Do obligations of justice constrain what we (members of the
present generation) may do when our activities influence the
lives of future generations?
• Is it unjust for the present generation to use up resources, and
destroy environmental systems, if this will impose hardship
on later generations?
• Will later generations be wealthier than we are? Do the
benefits we pass on to them outweigh the costs reflected in
depleted resource stocks and environmental damage?
4. Land Ethic
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Agricultural Sustainability – 7
• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity
belonging to us. When we see land as a community to
which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and
respect.
• All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that
the individual is a member of a community of
interdependent parts. The land ethic simply enlarges the
boundaries of the community to include soils, waters,
plants and animals, or collectively the land.
• A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from
conqueror of the land community to plain member and
citizen of it . . . it implies respect for his
fellow-members, and also respect for the community as
such.
