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title: 'Sustainability must be abandoned'
slug: 'sustainability-must-be-abandoned'
date: 2026-05-13
type: 'post'
status: 'published'
tags: ['physics', 'simplicity', 'linkedin-original']
abstract: 'Sustainability must be abandoned. Not the planet. Not the future. The’word. The’framework. The’mindset. "Sustainability" asks us to preserve what exists. To manage limits. To prevent collapse. To be less. That''s not a vision. That''s a retreat.'
license: 'CC-BY-4.0'
author: 'Jed Anderson'
co_authors: []
canonical_url: 'https://jedanderson.org/posts/sustainability-must-be-abandoned'
original_source: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedanderson432/'
original_date: 2026-04-27
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Sustainability must be abandoned. Not the planet. Not the future. The’word. The’framework. The’mindset.

"Sustainability" asks us to preserve what exists.

To manage limits. To prevent collapse.

To be less.

That's not a vision. That's a retreat.

The future isn't something to protect . . . it's something to create.

Physicist David Deutsch said it plainly:
"Sustainability is the disease. People are the cure."

AI and information technology aren't just helping us sustain the world.
They're revealing a world’way beyond’mere sustainability.

From scarcity—abundance.

From fear—curiosity.

From maintaining—evolving.

The real question isn't?"How do we sustain what we have?"

It's?"How do we create more life, more complexity, and more flourishing than has ever existed?"

? Full paper in comments:?"The Most Dangerous Word in Environmentalism"

Agree or disagree? I want the argument. ?