ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 we saw some characteristic kinds of compromise which people strike with sustainability demands and expectations as these impinge on the business of daily living. The reason for our managing so easily to address these demands in a form of bad faith was traced back to a source in the conceptual structure of sustainable development itself. This ruling paradigm or rationale on which we understand action in pursuit of sustainability, it was suggested, actually licenses the floating of our standards. It does so because we all tacitly recognize that its picture of the motivation to such action is only pseudo-ethical. It must then rely, in the way we have explored, on scientific prediction which we all tacitly know to be radically indeterminate for pegging any relevant standards in place.
