Kansas turns it up to 11

Having eradicated the teaching of evolution from school classrooms, Kansas now has its sights on another scourge: sustainable development. The following paragraph is NOT from the Onion:

[Kansas’] Committee on Energy and Environment is proposing a law that would ban all state and municipal funds for anything related to sustainable development, which it defines as: “development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come.”

Kansas’s Self-Destruct Button: A Bill to Outlaw Sustainability – Bloomberg via Next Draft

April 9, 2013