{"id":9770,"date":"2015-01-07T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/?p=9770"},"modified":"2015-01-07T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T03:03:15","slug":"sustainability-is-only-for-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2015\/01\/07\/sustainability-is-only-for-the-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability is Only for the Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/130115255617Os72.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9771\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/130115255617Os72-300x300.png\" alt=\"130115255617Os72\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/130115255617Os72-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/130115255617Os72-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/130115255617Os72-144x144.png 144w, http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/01\/130115255617Os72.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve never been able to grock how the well-known triple bottom line phrase \u2018people planet profit\u2019 has anything to do with sustainability. Please tell me how \u2018profit\u2019eering has anything to do with creating healthier societies and a balanced earth ecology?<\/p>\n<p>My interpretation of people, planet, profit goes like this:\u00a0<em>Elitist PEOPLE who PROFIT from others get to use the PLANET however they want, and make the laws that allow them to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below is a great example of this, and how \u2018doing good\u2019 in order to \u2018save the planet\u2019 has nothing to do with human well being. Unless of course you are one of the monetary elites.\u00a0And so what about the rest of us??<\/p>\n<p>Look. If an organization like EPA is going to create over-arching rules that ban things, they have to also create solutions to replace what will be taken away by the ban.\u00a0In this case, it means giving every poor person, whose wood stove is no longer usable by law, a stove that is useable. This has to be added to the policy or guess what? It\u2019s not \u201csustainable\u201d. \u2026 Duh.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s time for me to go find a cold rock to sleep under, because my wood stove has just now been banned. Sleep tight all you environmental extremists who have a pay check that allows you to buy your warmth, and ignore what is really happening here.<\/p>\n<p>Read this\u00a0article and you tell me what&#8217;s right about non-democratic organizations like the EPA proclaiming new laws in this way? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrybell\/2014\/01\/29\/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrybell\/2014\/01\/29\/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people<\/a><\/p>\n<p>God I&#8217;m pissed.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-9770\" data-postid=\"9770\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-9770 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never been able to grock how the well-known triple bottom line phrase \u2018people planet profit\u2019 has anything to do with sustainability. Please tell me how \u2018profit\u2019eering has anything to do with creating healthier societies and a balanced earth ecology? My interpretation of people, planet, profit goes like this:\u00a0Elitist PEOPLE who PROFIT from others get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WmHn-2xA","builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}