Flowers Need Sustainability

"Love Canal was a pleasant community near the iconic Niagara Falls whose homes and school were built on the former waste site of chemical company." (Robertson 2014)

A little boy outside of Love Canal. (https://ejatlas.org/conflict/love-canal-niagara-falls-usa)

Love canal was and is still know for all the people who became more sick and ill because of where they built their town. Love canal was a small community town that was built on a chemical company. Even though there may not be any more signs or anything that said it was chemical factories old land. This caused so many problems for the people who lived there so many of them became sick. The canal city was built to start generating cheap energy for the area. Cutting corners causes problems, which is exactly what was proven with Love Canal. Love Canal proved that if they don’t thoroughly contain different chemicals it causes people to become seriously sick. My roommate told me about a city in Fort Lauderdale that had houses built around a landfill and within the first 5 years numerous families developed cancer.

"You will notice that at whatever scale you examine, you find rich networks of connections and interconnections and interdependence, with systems both depending upon each other and affecting each other." (Robertson 2014)

A picture that shows everyone is connected.(http://washingtonnote.com/conx_public_dip/)

The world is big blue ball filled with people who are completely different but yet so similar at the same time. This means that people who live in the same area usually have the same culture. There is so many different cultures in the world that include the main ones that create sub-cultures with in bigger countries. Like the quote says there is no uniformity for cultures each person within a culture is unique and has a different take on each culture and it make it uniquely there one.  Even though everyone is different, we fit together in the world effortlessly. This is because we all have something that we each need, or something that we can all benefit from. The world is a big trading system we all have something that can help others meaning that when we introduce or culture to a different one we may be unknowingly be making an entirely different culture that can bring new meaning to the world.

"Sustainability as an idea refers to the body of knowledge that deals with how dynamic systems work on this planet we call home, including what we know about the current health or decline of those systems." (Robertson 2014).

A picture of a sustainable world.(http://hdwallpapershdpics.com/earth-from-outer-space-dual-monitor-wallpapers/)

I honestly did not have a correct grasp on what exactly what sustainability was so I looked it up. When I looked it up I found a definition that I could understand, “sustainability is the property of biological systems that remain diverse and productive indefinitely.” I took that to mean that basically if we cared more about the world and took better care of it we would be able to live here longer and the world would provide more for us at the same time. In regards to the text sustainability is something that we all have that helps us understand the different systems in the world and around it.