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seems to revolve around the concept of an anthropocentric ideology. Vulgar sustainability leans more towards the side that doesn’t think we should necessarily preserve our resources, but rather use them all we want. The advantages of each are quite apparent, virtuous sustainability seems to offer a type of sustainability that will preserve the resources we have now for future use, by protecting the ecosystem and not consuming as much as we do. Virtuous sustainability also takes into account ethics, social problems, inequalities, etc. On the flip side, vulgar sustainability will allow us to continue living how we do, but essentially aim to uphold that type of living for a longer period of time by creating new/more efficient methods of using resources.

3) Sustainability is ‘not enough’ according to Peter Marcuse people use sustainability as a goal, when in fact it shouldn’t be seen as that, “sustainability is not an appropriate goal; at best it is one criterion among others, not a goal.” (Marcuse, 104) As the article puts it, sustainability isn’t a goal but rather a constraint on the reaching of other goals. A good point that Marcuse makes is that the only the people who want to keep things as they are, are the very same people who already have everything they want. Additionally, Marcuse goes on to say “No one who is interested in justice wants to sustain things as they are now.” (Marcuse, 105) Hence, most people don’t care to maintain things as is because most things are socially unjust as they stand currently. To be sustainable means many things, and therefore, to make it a goal is illogical because perspectives will always conflict – what makes one person happy, will make another mad. The problem with sustainability is that it will never satisfy every aspect of a problem, and, sustainable is not always good. Plans can be sustainable, but bad as well, it’s all about perspective. Unfortunately, some people think it’s better to work towards something that’s self sustainable, rather than good, and in that aspect, sustainability is a “a constraint whose absence may limit the usefulness of a good programme.” (Marcuse 103) Marcuse ends the article with a valid point claiming how people use sustainability as a means to run away from the difficulties associated with properly solving a problem, and ultimately, that is why sustainability could never be enough.