Sustainability: Meeting Human Needs for Today and Tomorrow

The video is a lecture presentation on sustainability, discussing how we currently use the Earth's resources to meet basic human needs, the concept of sustainable development, and the finite and renewable resources available in the Earth's crust. The lecture also examines the estimated years of extraction remaining for crude oil, natural gas, and coal, and the mathematical concept of orders of magnitude in analyzing data about resources remaining in the Earth's crust. The video emphasizes the need for sustainable development to ensure that future generations have access to the resources we currently use.