This Use of Sustainability

 Sustainability tends to have two meanings.

If you are a woken-individual....you tend to think of sustainability meaning that you have requirements in life, but you always worry about future generations and how they won't be able to have what you have, because social and economic conditions can't deliver.  So they will have less....which means you feel guilt.

If you are a regular person....then you think in terms of building, selling, developing, or doing something....which will repeat, over and over.  It's like a hundred acres of corn, and you kinda expect x-number of bushels each year, IF the rain comes on time.  

So you can imagine this meeting occurring at some local pub or honky-tonk.  Regular guy comes to meet woken-guy (who has fear/guilt on their mind).  

Regular guy is optimistic.  Woken-guy (fear/guilt on his mind) is pessimistic. 

Regular guy tends to worry over rainfall, failing equipment, and things he can actually feel/touch.  Woken-guy (fear/guilt on his mind) worries about one-thousand things....most of which are beyond his power or control.

Regular guy generally regards each generation of his family (since 1738 when they arrived on the shores of Georgia) has having gone up a notch in life, and they all seem  to have this built-in optimistic view of the next decade.

Woken-guy (fear/guilt on his mind) probably knows up to the grandparents level of where the family success/failure has come from, and doesn't let that knowledge diminish his fear of sustainability.  

Regular guy will kinda grin on the issue of energy consumption....admitting that since he got rid of that 1964 freezer in the garage last year, and swapped out his 1988 refrigerator in the kitchen....he's now using 50-percent less electricity compared to 2018's electrical bill.  He'll also admit that with the new Ford Fusion, he's now getting 42 mpg (three-times the mileage as with the 1994 Ford that he had).  

Woken-guy (fear/guilt on his mind) never pauses to think over his energy consumption or his mpg situation.....no matter how it relates to 1991, he feels bad about it.  

So, just some advice....maybe there's something better out there to worry about instead of sustainability.  Well...maybe even the septic tank sustainability, because it sure won't last forever.