I had this thought about an air pocket at the bottom of a vase-like shape that goes into water.
If you were able to maintain the air pocket, wouldn’t the weight of the water overcome the air pressure, creating continuous flow?
We don’t understand what it means to be in a world that we inhabit at a saturated level.
We need systems that function indefinitely. Temporary solutions were a means to an end. We are reaching the ends, simply in terms of quantity, in all facets of society.
Systems we propagate are great insofar as what they were able to accomplish for the availability of products and resources. But they are not built for permanent sustainability, they were and are made to meet the temporary goals of marginal gains in ongoing production practices. If we are to meet the need of our times we have to re-examine our practices to include the time where we will need all of our efforts to stick around because we won’t have the available resources to continue to produce temporary solutions.
We will run out of resources on the scale of our continued permanent existence on earth. There is no alternative to what we need to do. Make things that last and systems that can continue indefinitely.
Why would we continue acting as if we are the last generation. The world continues after we are gone. Let us figure out what is sustainable and what isn’t.