Radical Premises in Sustainability Reform

B) Social and Cultural Sustainability include the role of individuals; relationships among social groups; the family; collective behavior; social class, race and ethnicity; medicine; education; and the role of institutions in society that tend to promote harmony among people. Additionally, economic sustainability addresses factors that influence the economic health and profile of communities, including the standard of living, the business climate, employment, and the productive role of the corporation in the life of a community. [...]I offer the following description of a sustainable society: A sustainable society possesses the ability to survive and prosper, not just with respect to environmental resources, but also with respect to quality of life as it pertains to the values and conditions that promote continued individual and collective human prosperity and growth (e.g., opportunity, economy, privacy, community, the arts, education, and health). According to the Pew Global Survey (2002), the majority of those surveyed cited both the availability of jobs and the growing gap between the rich