Sustainability

It appears there is much riding on the earth's future. Leadership of the next decades must be ready to deal with new challenges that have not been recorded in history. A major issue of this future will be the ability for society to sustain itself amid an illusion of resource scarcity. The purpose of this essay is to investigate the next generations' ability to carry the torch of sustainability as it relates to the five capitals. These capitals include: natural capital, human capital, social capital, manufactured capital and financial capital. This essay will first present some general background about sustainability before summarily addressing each one of the five sub-points and their relation to one another.

Background

Shott (2012) explained that a new attitude must be adopted by the next generations. He explained the onus rests upon these young people due to their circumstances: "the often maligned Y-Generation is growing...
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