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Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

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Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

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Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

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When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

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Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us?

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Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

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Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

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Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

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The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.

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In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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