This assignment told us to search "sustainability" plus a keyword of our choosing. I started this assignment off with a random keyword, the dairy product industry. Please don't ask me how i arrived to that but i did. I soon found myself with a different keyword though. "Sustainable foreign affairs," that's what i finally landed on. In my readings i found that the concept of sustainable development has been distorted into into many different directions. It seems as though that was a disaster that was unavoidable. Im not quite sure though if it was a disaster that was "unavoidable". The idea of sustainable development encourages the "interconnection" of our economy, natural resources and social justice. Basically everything. Sustainable development has been wooven deep into the minds of human rights groups, large chemical plants, nuclear power plants and small island nations. The site is aggressive toward the notion that these groups have "overspecialized" and geared sustainable development toward their own "meaningless checklists and targets." Which could be easily argued. Those "targets" aren't all geared for themselves. Today people are more aware of our global economy and global warming. Social Justice is being tried through wars and blood shed. Sustainable development is not ever going to be perfect, but we as humans can strive to create this perfect concept, that has turned supposedly into a "harmful" consensus.

-Rachel Hodkoski

Recovering Sustainable Development