WORD OF THE DAY!

I love it when I use the "Define" capability of Google to look up a definition of a word or phrase and then find myself looking up the definition of the definition. Whatever happened to putting the meaning in simple English! For instance, today, amidst my research on "Climate Change", I came across the term "Sustainable Development". I went on Google and typed Define: Sustainable Development. The first result was from Wikipedia so I’m thinking Yea, Wikis know what they’re talking about. This is what I get:

Development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations’ ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of the nature. In other words, it's trying to protect the environment.

Can someone read the first 2-mile sentence and figure out what the heck they’re talking about?! I must be ADD because they lost me at "by"…what was wrong with just "protecting the environment"?

But...I’m still not sure about the term "Sustainable" because Wiki decides to define a term by using the term itself in the definition. So I click on the word/link "Sustainable" to see what happens next:

Able to be sustained

Aaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Frustrated…clicking on the link "Sustained"…:

Simple past tense and past participle of sustain

Whoever said Internet made things easier! I miss the days of having a 50-lb Oxford dictionary in my bagpack...do any of you remember that??? Yes, before they came out with the pocket-size version, Oxford published the big daddy!!! I love my “research” life! It took me 4 clicks and a forced SMILE to get to this word today…hence this will be my WORD OF THE DAY:

SUSTAIN: to maintain (something), or keep it in existence; to provide for or nourish (something), to encourage (something); to experience or suffer (an injury, etc.); to confirm, prove, or corroborate (something).

Ciao!

signed: Thinker-Bell