"Sustainability, as currently practiced across the built environment professions, has become a strategy for optimizing consumption rather than reducing it."
"Until the profession is willing to question the scale and structure of demand rather than the efficiency with which that demand is met, its most celebrated achievements will continue to fall short of the problem they claim to address."
The modern sustainability project aims to balance urban growth with ecological responsibility through evolving technologies. Progress is evident in reduced energy consumption in buildings, lower vehicle emissions, and cleaner urban infrastructure. However, total resource consumption is still increasing. Current sustainability practices prioritize optimizing consumption instead of addressing the scale and structure of demand. Without a shift in focus, the achievements in sustainability will not effectively tackle the underlying issues they intend to resolve.
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