Students:Agnieszka Buchtová

Something little about me

I'm 21 years old and I'm from a small frontier town Český Těšín. I've been living in Brno for 16 years. I attended the Matyáš Lerch French high school where I graduated and now I study at Masaryk University in Brno - the Faculty of Social Studies. My departments are Environmental Studies and International Relations. I like reading poems, baking, eating raspberries, walking in woods and singing. Once I'd like to have a useful job in environmental sector, have a modest life, family and I'd love to travel.

Me and sustainability

Well, I don't think that the standard of life we have today in "developed countries" could be ever sustainable. We're exploiting the third world, the nature and each other. If we want to make out lives sustainable, we have to cut down on our life standard. I'm a kind of idealist but I doubt that all our western culture could ever start to act altruistically.. And all kinds of other efforts that we think could lead to the sustainability are useless without the change of our thinking and our values. My current opinion is that the sustainability process could only slow the fall of our civilisation. Mabye there's no place for sustainable development. There's a place for "sustainable retreat".