I'm sure there is some Google tool that can track usage of the word. I wonder if the line is concave (or is that convex) such that we might, hopefully, observe some levelling off in the future so that we don't reach the dreaded outcome predicted below.

Source: http://xkcd.com/1007/

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  1. willwheels Avatar

    This is the source for the data in the chart (although it will only go up to 2008):
    http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sustainability&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=2
    But very, very funny cartoon. I’m sending it around.

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