The historian Annette Kehnel researches the history of sustainability. In an interview with Eckart von Hirschhausen, she talks about the resource-saving handling of food in the Middle Ages and why we should put the cookbook on the shelf more often.
Eckhart von Hirschhausen
Today we like to think that sustainability is a totally modern idea. You are a professor of medieval history. How old is sustainability really?
Much of what we can do today, we were able to do before. My question is: When did we actually forget that? When did we forget how long-term economics works: recycling, sharing economy, public welfare economy, microcredit. Much of what is discussed today under the term sustainability was completely self-evident for centuries and millennia.
Source: Stern
