Non-Sustainability is a state in which powerful groups of people and organizations in human society, acting for narrow and short term purposes, draw from nature and from the large other parts of society, more than these can provide without losing part of their potential, of their means to exist, gradually evolving toward breakdown, inability to keep on providing and finally annihilation.

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This definition describes the current state of the world, under the thrust of a system that is based on invalid premises of

• anthropocentrism,
• superiority of our species over all the other living species,
• Ownership by our species of all resources of the universe
• and within our species rule of the masses by the strongest, regardless of the source of their strength.

We do not know and nobody knows :

to what length we have proceeded along this destructive process during its 10 or 12 millenniums of existence. What we know, however, is that the premises that govern us, were born at a time when human population was anywhere between 1 and 10 million, worldwide, and when the energy consumed by that population was proportionately much smaller than now. We are now nearing 6 billion people and growing in numbers, wasting and consuming energy like never before.

This cannot go on much longer. Somewhere, more or less soon, the whole system may collapse.

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