ABSTRACT
Complicated issues set in about time and about jobs. It is industrial civilization that has created this situation, along with the growing pressures of food production and the overproduction of people themselves. The removal of a resource such as sand to be used for building materials can disrupt water supplies for people dependent on these. The provision of jobs for one category of people may take away a source of livelihood for others. Governments set dates for achieving carbon-neutral economies or reducing air pollution. These are all laudable and useful moves, but they still are hampered by the phenomenon of clashing scales identified by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. The whole display advertised a new sense of connections between groups that had collectively suffered from an environmental disaster. Issues of environmental and social justice loom large in any context of arguments about sustainability.
