State and Society should be held responsible for ensuring the environment's sustainability and for preventing further damage.

sustainability 是由动词 sustain（维持、支撑）加上后缀 -ability 构成的名词。sustain 来自拉丁语，意为"支撑、维持"；-ability 是表示"能力、可能性"的名词后缀。因此 sustainability 字面意思是"可维持性"，引申为"可持续性"，指在不耗尽资源或破坏生态平衡的情况下长期维持的能力。