Thought of the Day: Sustainability

I am absolutely sick of the term "sustainability."  I have for a long time.  It's one more - of the MANY - useless, meaningless, vague terms that the environmental wackos are unwilling to precisely define - until, of course, they decide they want to decide a particular practice "unsustainable."

Farming practices, energy policy, home construction, landscaping, grocery bags, paint, carpet, the "non-organic" food we eat are just a few items that have been deemed unsustainable.  Of course, you must surrender your freedom, free choice and personal preferences and march lock step with this mob of mind numb robots if your lifestyle ever has a chance of being declared sustainable.

So the other day I'm listening to NPR.  They were talking about this group that goes around the world telling "stupid," "moron" farmers that the way they are farming, growing their food and providing for their families is unsustainable.  During this story, they followed this group around as they talked with a bunch Indian cotton farmers. 

The 20-something hippie environmentalist who had never grown anything except pot in his mom's basement explained to these farmers about how the way they were growing their cotton was unsustainable.  The naïve Indian farmer ignorantly responded, "How is our farming practices unsustainable?  My people have been growing cotton like this for over 3,000 years."  Stupid Indian...he just didn't get it.