T 12/7 Alan Holland, “Sustainability”

Topic: What is environmental sustainability?

1. What is sustainability and how does it attempt to balance environmental and economic concerns? What are the suspicions of each side about sustainability?

2. What is the difference between strong and weak forms of sustainability? What is the moral objection to construing nature as capital?

3. In the conclusion, what does Holland say about the challenges faced by the attempt to calculate a sustainable future and the real importance of the concept of sustainability?