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done.
Although humans seem to have inherent cognitive difficulties in planning for
time scales significantly longer than the human lifespan,
\emph{strong} sustainability is achieved only if the answer is
indefinitely'' or
forever.''
Our current sustainability crisis has been thousands of years in the making~\cite{Sanderman2018}
and will likely require millions of years to recover~\cite{Davis11262}.
A \emph{weak} sustainability criterion is sustainability over a long (by human standards)
time frame, perhaps 50 years, which is on the order of one human adulthood.
About Chapter 1, Zeke says:
Some useful references for the time-scale over which sustainability must be assessed: · Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706103114 · Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804906115