Sustainability for me is a way of thinking and acting. It is not one thing over another, it is decision-making that over arches just about everything I do. In education for sustainability I do not believe it is about forcing people to "come around to my way of thinking", instead it is about opening up their ways of thinking that challenge norms, through asking deeper questions, making connections between communities of people and building relationships for the betterment of societies.
I personally shy away from the idea that sustainability is about pointing at people/products/actions and saying - you are wrong, that action is wrong - and therefore you must do this to be right. Rather, I would like to think that I could calmly talk to the group responsible for the product/action/environment and ask - have you thought about the consequences of this action in 10/20/50 years time?
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