Defining Sustainability: Absolutely | Anjila Hjalsted | TEDxGoodenoughCollege

[NetZeroGame]

Great to hear a sustainability leader of the present - and the future!

[jennyduncan]

It's fabulous that younger generations are working towards being more sustainable.
It's a great plan to define sustainability in absolute terms and create a system by which everything can be measured.

I was hoping she was going to tell us what our planetary limit is and how that breaks down to each person.
How much can I sustainably consume?
Where should I draw the line?
What areas can I do better in?
Where am I doing a good job now?

[pauloviniciusvilelademesqu]

It’s a great pleasure for me to participate of this class from Sustentability from you !!
Best regards,
Paulo Vinicius Vilela de Mesquita
Brasil 🇧🇷

[lesegoseloane]

Totally loved this. Really revolutionary and would need to have lots of conversations around it, obviously very lengthy and with radical approaches. 💚

[plantbere]

I loved it! It would be useful to share some examples of the results you got from the calculations - how big are the shares - for everyone to get a feeling.

[sepiaphotosinthesun]

Loved this Ted Talk, congratulations Anjila!

[LuisLopez-wwxy]

It is not clear enough for me what "absolute sustainability" is. What the answer of the third question. How can we determine that "Yes or no" result. Can anyone trying to clarify it?

[KiahDana]

Far too vague to be useful. I didn't leave with an understanding of what absolute sustainability is, nor did I understand the equation you are using to get a yes/no. Also, the safe and dangerous rates of those various elements is not agreed upon.

[javierwagner]

This is the right path, finally something actionable. However, an activity cannot be defined as sustainable in isolation. The ceilings of resources are determined by its cyclical supply and also but the other activities that are already occupying/consuming a piece of the resource budget. If we are at the edge of all budgetary limits any activity is likely to be unsustainable, that is where deciding what activities are worth the movement of materials becomes critical. Nonetheless, this is a much more productive conversation already than companies randomly saying they are sustainable and all that useless talk.

[merle]

Am I wrong or does she completely neglect social sustainability? Sustainability is not just about natural resources, a cake to be shared.
Also the Brundtland definition is not defining sustainability, but sustainable development.

[exposurepoint-]

Very insightful .. let us continue to keep caring..

[jessmason]

Absolute sustainability begins with water 💦. You can't do anything without water. You can grow, create, filter, provide, and survive. Just like every ancient civilization used aqueducts, and farming to build great cities and economies. It's absurd to think that the Earth will provide all of mankind's needs for fresh water. Let's break it down. How did these ancient times create these great feats and civilizations? Water, water distribution, economics, and creating something out of nothing. Like ancient societies, we need to create these things. Within all that is the answer.

[nawafm]

Can you share with us the mathematical eq in a separate video?

[nicolasrojas]

What is "really radical"? The goal of absolute sustainability includes the poor?

[brandonkoolhaas]

This "new definition" promotes excess emissions, which will still slowly cause temperatures to rise

[momilli]

S u s t a i n a b l e = the new Code Word for G E N O C I D E !!!

[V-Smith]

Oh my gosh and three seconds, and I already can’t stand the propaganda

[guesswho-ogwv]

11:24 minutes in and i still don't have a quantifiable definition of sustainability.. What is so great about this??? Utterly useless

[lesegoseloane]

Totally loved this. Really revolutionary and would need to have lots of conversations around it, obviously very lengthy and with radical approaches. 💚

[FujiDigitalColorLabStudio]

I loved it! It would be useful to share some examples of the results you got from the calculations - how big are the shares - for everyone to get a feeling.