Curious Cook: Is sustainability sustainable?

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We hear a lot about sustainability these days, and with good reason. Many people sense, finally, that our planet’s ability to tolerate deforestation, indiscriminate production of greenhouse gases, sea pollution, chemical poisoning of land via rubbish disposal and pesticides, etc, have brought Earth closer to some sort of un-survivable crisis point.

There are a lot of hard facts and tough truths behind this sense of foreboding, especially as Earth’s human population is now estimated to hit 9.5 billion by the year 2050, just 31 years away, when many people reading this will probably still be alive.