Sustainability

18 October  2012   

1 Corinthians  9:7-8 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Who tends a flock without getting some of the milk? Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same?

In order to develop the development must be sustained and sustainable. In a country where the vast majority are unemployed and in an economic driven state based on mining and industry it is almost impossible to make jobs for people who are not equipped for the economic market. A further problem is that those who are employed are often unproductive, because they are paid to do a job they are not really trained to do.

In history we learn that we learn nothing from history. Each generation repeats the errors of the past and tends to ignore history, so we see how technology changes but the mistakes do not. In history the early Roman did not support mining nor industry as  sustainable, simply because once you had mined, the resource was used and could not be replaced. They saw that the only sustainable income was from farming and the proper use of land, the land is able to regenerate itself. When there is no hungry people and people are housed on the land, working and using the land, there is peace. The closer we come to the land and the understanding of sustainability the closer we come to finding lasting peace. So we are all able to learn from the past and to understand that we also have a role to play in making and keeping the peace, by ensuring that what we do is sustainable.

Be encouraged today to use only sustainable resources.

  

David

Point to ponder: Sustainability leads to peace.

Question to consider: How do you help to sustain resources?