Communityn Essay: Speaking of sustainability: the potential of metaphor

Abstract

This essay explores how, through metaphor, pro-ponents of sustainable consumption can shift from a worldview that is linear, mechanistic, reductionist, expansionist, and consumerist to one that is cyclic, organic, complex, constrained and, shall we say, productive or self-generating.

Keywords

• communication
• culture (human)
• social behavior
• ecosystem sustainability
• world problems