1. Google’ s definition of environmental sustainability is “to maintain the qualities that are valued in the physical environment”. This definition is weak because it doesn’t talk about the natural environment. The strong part of this definition however, is it defines how me need to protect the physical environment. There are many manmade lakes that help maintain the natural environment.

Small Biz Connect definition is “Environmental sustainability involves making decisions and taking action that are in the interests of protecting the natural world, with particular emphasis on preserving the capability of the environment to support human life. Again, this definition is weak because it only focuses on the human life. It mentions nothing about preserving the natural or physical environment as well. The strong part of this definition is that it does cover human life.

When I think of environmental sustainability, my definition is to protect and maintain the physical and natural environments as well as protecting human life. It is something that is done to help ensure that we don’t run out of our natural environment such as trees and animals. Limiting the amount of hunting, fishing, and cutting down of trees is a few of the ways we can maintain environmental sustainability.

2. The Tragedy of the Commons is related to the environmental sustainability because they both are trying to protect resources. The Tragedy of the Commons is protecting public places from running out of resources such as fish or trees. The ethical issues that arise with The Tragedy of the Commons is that although people know they need to be conservative, not everyone abides by that. By having this issue, people tend to do the opposite of what they believe thinking that in the end it doesn’t matter because others don’t abide. For example, in one of the videos we were shown a pond full of