Attended a community meeting tonight hosted by the Belize Sustainable Tourism Board. In 1999, in grad-school, we had an entire course dedicated to defining what 'sustainability' was, as it was a word no one knew, explicitly understood, or could use in a sentence. Times have changed, and the word, once inserted in any topic, under any circumstance, can bolster your chances at people agreeing with you. As in, "I know we want to win at the meet tonight, but we really need to be thinking about the sustainability of the swim team program." It is the modern 'smurf'.
The pièce de résistance, however, is everyone's concern: Climate Change. As in (and I quote from tonight): "It is important that the Peninsula have a Community Disaster Response Plan in case of Natural Disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, and climate change."
A quick note: (1) the meeting was very well done, very professional, and successful, and (2) I am a climate change agnostic, neither bowing to it or blowharding it. I do, however, enjoy its amazing abilities.