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What is sustainability?

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Women lightly touching water

What is sustainability?

The world faces a range of complex inter-related social, environmental and economic challenges!

Examples (NOT an exhaustive list):

  • Global warming & climate change (or climate chaos)
  • Labour rights
  • Poverty
  • Water shortage
  • Destruction of rainforests and loss of biodiversity

Over to you

  1. Can you think of other issues/challenges facing the world?
  2. Can you think of issues/challenges facing your local community?

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