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Sustainability is a concern at the problems arising from the impact we have on the world has grown during recent decades. Basically, the word sustainability means how long you can keep doing what you are doing without coming to an end. Clearcutting forests without replanting is not sustainable--sooner or later you run out of forest. Using oil for fuel is not sustainable--eventually there will be no more oil. Farming practices which parch the soil and drain it of nutrients are not sustainable--they will turn the soil into desert.

Sustainable practices include using solar and wind power which is not going to run out in billions of years, and which is not diminished by use, or crop rotations which keep the soil fertile, or replanting forests as they are used to ensure that there will be forests in the future.

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