sustainability is just a euphemism for austerity.  because the only fool proof way to reduce environmental impact ( including supply chain and other downstream effects ) is to impoverish the population until little is produced or consumed.  

about a decade ago i explained this to a liberal college girl i was dating at the time and she started crying.  

since then they brought in the lockdowns and "supply chain bottlenecks" and cancelled and blown up pipelines, and on and on - all with the same goal - to reduce the standard of living ultimately lowering expectations.

remember how they polled people and everybody expects the current generations to live worse than boomers ?  think about it - how is that even possible in a free market with the kind of productivity growth due to automation ?

the answer is the decline is 100% engineered, but the masses were brainwashed to accept it as something that can just happen.  it can't.

you cannot have a slow and steady decline in standard of living coinciding with steady increases in automation and productivity.  and yet we have exactly that and nobody asks how.  even as the answer is obvious to those of us who are awake.