Sustainable is a badly used term for this reason. Lots of inefficient things are sustainable for the short term of a few hundred thousand years. “Unsustainable” should be limited to things that are either collapsing now (climate change) or obviously short term, like low paid workers for essential jobs when demographically the population is slowly losing workers.
Sustainable is a badly used term for this reason. Lots of inefficient things are sustainable for the short term of a few hundred thousand years. “Unsustainable” should be limited to things that are either collapsing now (climate change) or obviously short term, like low paid workers for essential jobs when demographically the population is slowly losing workers.