Reclaiming Old Ideas About Sustainability

Novelist Andre Gide once wrote: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

How true that is with respect to sustainability. Sure, we could use a few great new ideas, but most of the ideas we need have been with us for millennia. In terms of our respect for nature, we’re simply trying to reclaim ground we once owned. People 200 years ago didn’t need to be told to leave a habitable planet for future generations; the notion was a part of the common wisdom of the day.