HOW CAN CULTURE LEAD TO SUSTAINABILITY
Daniel Tanc
Ciprian-Beniamin Benea
Adina Secară-Oniţa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/limen.2018.546
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will lead to conflicts (wars) and will end in ecological disaster. This paper intends to underline
the importance of culture in molding ideas and actions so that we could move from
consumerism to sustainability. Two of the cultural aspects that can have a direct impact on
people in helping developing sustainability are education and religion. Education from an early
age towards sustainability, reorienting the curricula and implementing a new lifestyle that is
close to nature can have benefits for the coming generations. Meantime, religion should play a
more important role in relating its values to nowadays problems. From liturgy to social service,
religions can promote values that lead to sustainability.
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