Iceland, Newfoundland & Finland: Sustainable

[August1991]

Americans are about to celebrate their 1776 Declaration, then their Constitution.

What is sustainable?

The people of Iceland, some 300,000 people -still today - have survived for over 1000 years.

Newfoundlanders? On a desert island. Some 600,000 or so for over 500 years.

Both Icelanders and Newfoundlanders are open, good people. Icelanders have their own language; Newfoundlanders were colonised.

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The Finns have maintained their language - and dealt with the Russians, Soviets,

 

[August1991]

I was surprised to learn that the Korean script is only 600 years old. It dates from 1446 CE.

Cyrillic script dates from about 1100 CE.

Sustainable? The Bulgarian language still exists.