Sustainability Documentary

This video explores the rise of the concept of sustainability as it has gone from the fringes to the mainstream within just a few short decades, driven by an environmental crisis on a global scale.
In this short documentary film, we explore this new environmental context of the Anthropocene and the key structural transformations in our economy required to achieve sustainability in the age of globalization.

[etienne_oosthuizen]

This documentary does a very good job of blurring the lines and creating confusion, @14:05 where they define sustainability they leave out a critical point or rather they tippy toe around it ... The idea to sustain, meaning to hold or maintain. That is the critical point. Sustainability means to keep systems as they are. Now in context of complexity, this is not possible. Complexity best shows itself in ecosystems, economies and societies. A complex system are self organizing and adaptive to influences and changes, you apply a change the complex system will adapt to compensate. This being particularly prevalent in ecosystems, however economies are also great examples. If you look at Zimbabwe during the Mugabe years, the economy did not collapse, the currency did. The economy adapted and self organised into a informal black market economy. So getting back to the concept of sustainability, to sustain a complex system requires huge amount of energy, and the energy requirement will perpetually increase with each cycle. If we look at conventional agriculture (which should be correctly termed sustainable agriculture), requires the land to be reset each year for planting. That reset is done through tilling, each year bigger and bigger tractors are required to till deeper and deeper to achieve the same "sustainable" harvest. Then nutrients need to be added to sustain the these plants, year on year. This is all a huge amount of energy to produce the same sustainable amount of food. There is a point where the system will fail ...

[mychudungco]

I am now dedicating the rest of my life to study sustainability staring with my PhD research in sustainability banking.

[Aldiijas]

I am really passionate about being a full fledged sustainability professional; this documentary was just confirms how much I want this.

[Micdupwithjay]

The documentary Sustainability was a different look on sustainability as a whole instead of just one area. The documentary explains that since the industrial revolution and because of the over consumptions of products earth will no longer be able to sustain itself. Companies are over producing and because they overproduce, we over consume. Society are destroying the ecology by out linear economy model instead of circular. Instead of switching between different types of energy people will keep using one main source of energy, such as coal. This was a completely different look instead of just focusing on plastic I enjoyed how it gives you better outlook on how we need to change the macro to save the environment not the micro.

[hfortenberry]

This was so beautiful. The whole time I was thinking, "I want to go there, and there, and there and there." This earth and world is simply spectacular.

[UgonnaWachuku]

Inspiring, valuable and insightful for all humankind and our earthly environment. Abundant blessings and wisdom to Systems Innovation, Systems Academy and Complexity Academy, always. #Sustainability #SDGs #ClimateAction #Oceans #Biodiversity #EcoSystems #Agriculture #IndustrialRevolution #Technology #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Economy #Society #Planet #Ecology

[alexmorrisonwx]

I love this! This is such a great overview on sustainability and it’s not too long either!

I have my own channel where I talk about sustainability and climate change. I try to keep things short and to the point.

It’s great to see more good resources and FACTS about these issues.

[LeetMath]

sustainability is about the ability of an intelligent system to successfully anticipate and act for long term success, there is no such thing as sustainability whenever you extrapolate linearly from current practices. If you look at intelligent systems, there is difficulty with combinatorial explosion in long term and uncertainty due to chaos. longer term intelligence also has longer delay times in its feedback so it takes longer to learn from mistakes. You have to engineer the system of decision making so that it is able to deal with long term effects better.

[realunknown]

Lowkey, the majority of this video is basically the same thing being repeated over and over again using similar words. Good luck to all who are doing a research paper on this. You're (not) gonna have fun.

[berywildbrielle]

Glad to know I’m not the only one on my 42674th sustainability video

[gilmarlopes]

THIS APPROACH IS SIMPLY WONDERFUL AND DELICADE WHICH MAKES US TO REFLECT A LOT ON SUSTAINABILITY! WONDERFUL!!!

[pharmanexdevelopment]

Please edit the captions, which sometimes have nothing to do with the actual narration.

[liquidphilosophies]

I don't understand how they can talk of sustainability without addressing constant growth of human population. How is that sustainable?

[cloudy_w]

great video, i hope this helps my maths specialist exam tomorrow morning ! edit: THANKS GUYS IM

[elizabethsurina]

For a truly informing and well written to hold interest read- The Wizard and The Prophet is a must. Two men set out to answer the questions surrounding the questions- How will we feed the 10 billion who need food? Is there hope for the future farmer?

[familiaperez]

the Sustainability Documentary emphasizes that sustainability isn’t just a niche issue; it’s a critical imperative that spans economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Sustainability is really important in our lives!

[M..]

I'm doing this for class and my teacher said capture the big ideas in your notes so I skipped every 5-10 minutes and took notes for 1 minute of it. I got an A lol.

[tshatshadiraditsile]

An eye opener in all aspects of global development. Sustainable development is the future of tomorrow's innovation. 🙌👌

[AshishKumar-bsum]

Great documentry!! We need to adopt sustainable behaviour for bright future.There is no Earth B

[tochukwuchigbo]

Really Informative and educating. We all need to join hands and create a sustainable environment for ourselves and a sustainable world for posterity.