"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Sustainable Development Hoax
"Sustainable Development (SD) is basically a slogan without a specific meaning. Linked to Earth Day (April 22), it masquerades as a call for clean air, green energy, and suggests a pristine bucolic existence for us and our progeny—forever. But in reality, it has become immensely useful to many groups who use the slogan to advance their own special agenda, whatever they may be."
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"Sustainability sounds like a call for recycling and clean drinking water. But its proponents are much more ambitious. For them, a sustainable society is one that replaces the market economy with top-down regulation."
Actually, it depends on who is using the word. Ordinary people using it just wish others would extend their usually short-term time preferences. Ruling class folks use it the way the author states. So it's a sort of bait and switch tactic. There is nothing wrong with sustainability per se (and arguing directly against it is a mistake), but there certainly is with the aggression and violence inherent in the ruling class interpretation of what it means.
Hell, the market is sustainable. Nothing wrong with that...