SUSTAINABILITY AND PARADIGM SHIFTS

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SUSTAINABILITY AND PARADIGM SHIFTS

• Sustainability
• the ability to meet the needs of the present
  generation without compromising the ability of
  future generation to meet their needs
• Paradigm
• a model or concept that is accepted by most
  people in a society
• it may be a process, idea or set of data

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SUSTAINABILITY AND PARADIGM SHIFTS cont.

• Paradigm Shift
• rare and significant changes in the way humans
  view the world
• they are major changes which are controversial at
  first, but eventually come to be accepted as a
  major advancements in science
• examples
• flat Earth ? spherical Earth
• Earth is the center of the universe ? sun is the
  center of the universe
• Cabots endless codfish ? NL codfish moratorium