As President Trump downgrades the relevance of Obama era climate change and anti-fossil fuel policies, many environmentalists are directing attention to "sustainable development."
Like "dangerous manmade climate change," sustainability reflects poor understanding of basic energy, economic, resource extraction and manufacturing principles--and a tendency to emphasize tautologies and theoretical models as an alternative to readily observable evidence in the Real World. It also involves well-intended but ill-informed people being led by ill-intended but well-informed activists who use the concept to gain greater government control over people's lives, livelihoods and living standards.
