http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist EPA's Blog About Our World Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist/comment-page-1/#comment-23845 Johnny R. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:34 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1205#comment-23845 Sustainable growth on a World of limited resources is an oxymoron. To put it another way: A growing economy on a shrinking planet has no future. But apparently growth is an instinct, so people are driven to expand their economic power regardless of fatal consequences. Thus, the coal fired power plants and jet planes pump out pollution relentlessly – until the biosphere undergoes toxic collapse and life on Earth self-terminates.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist/comment-page-1/#comment-23807 sara Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:40:25 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1205#comment-23807 Great post!
Thank you so for sharing an important knowledge about the sustainable development in future. It just like a challenge, to “decouple” material progress and the environment, by putting them on parallel, complementary and hopefully mutually reinforcing tracks. In simple terms, this means maximising economic growth and environmental improvement at the same time.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist/comment-page-1/#comment-23794 The Refinishing Touch Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:08:18 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1205#comment-23794 A really interesting post, thank you. One thing that’s clear about future sustainability developments is the enormous role played by science (and agencies such as the EPA). This work sounds fascinating and as a company that strives to work with chemicals that have a smaller environmental footprint, we’ll be keeping an eye on future posts and your updates on Sustainable Chemistry.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist/comment-page-1/#comment-23785 Johnny R. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:17:41 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1205#comment-23785 Even if 100% of all chemical engineering were made green, the ever-growing population would overwhelm and strip the remaining wilderness and whatever is left of the balance of Nature would be destroyed. How many people can the Earth support, and who wants to live on such an overcrowded, suburbanized, agribusiness, tree-farm planet just so a few people can be fabulously rich?

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/science-wednesday-sustainability-through-the-eyes-of-a-chemist/comment-page-1/#comment-23753 armansyahardanis Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:54:55 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=1205#comment-23753 I skeptic to you about sustainable chemistry.
Here, swamp drainage reclamation in Sumatera and Kalimantan, are cutting the molecular of biology, chemistry and physics of the forest and its soil. That’s paradox. We are cutting but you are trying to build.
I’m sorry, here, we are destructing the planet that billion years evoluted.

]]>