{"id":6036,"date":"2015-07-03T21:50:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T01:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2015-07-03T21:50:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T01:50:58","slug":"its-just-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just common sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=Herman+Daly\">Herman Daly<\/a>, an early pioneer in the sustainability movement, sustainability means three things: <\/p>\n<p>1) For renewable resources, the rate of harvest should not exceed the rate of regeneration; <\/p>\n<p>2) for pollution, the rates of waste generation should not exceed the assimilation capacity of the environment (sustainable waste disposal) and <\/p>\n<p>3) for nonrenewable resources, the depletion of the nonrenewable resources (that is, fossil fuels) should require comparable development of renewable substitutes for that resource. <\/p>\n<p>Achieving such sustainability will enable the Earth to continue to support life. Thus, teaching sustainability is <strong>common sense<\/strong>. It is our responsibility; it is not a \u201cplot\u201d to brainwash students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Herman Daly, an early pioneer in the sustainability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}