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Importance of sustainable development In our world

What is sustainable development

“Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

The concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many different ways, but at its core is an approach to development that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of the environmental, social and economic limitations we face as a society.

Sustainability is a broad discipline, giving students and graduates insights into most aspects of the human world from business to technology to environment and the social sciences. The core skills with which a graduates leaves college or university are highly sought after, especially in a modern world looking to drastically reduce carbon emissions and discover and develop the technologies of the future. Sustainability draws on politics, economics and, philosophy and other social sciences as well as the hard sciences.Regarding water management, sustainable development has generated attention on four principles. First, fresh water should be regarded as a finite and vulnerable resource.

In the debate over water management approaches, some view sustainable development as a vague and ambiguous concept, leading people to define it to suit their own interests either economic development or environmental protection. Some suggest that its emphasis on achieving balance between economic development and environmental protection overlooks the importance of ensuring sensitivity to the social and cultural attributes of societies.

The three core elements of sustainable developments are:

  • Environmental Conservation

Its primary focus is the protection of the environment so that we do not destroy the resources provided by it. It further minimizes the adverse effects on the surroundings.

  • Social Development

It strives to achieve the well being of individuals and society at large. It necessitates the availability of necessary resources, proper healthcare, and good quality of life for people.

  • Economic Progress

It is the most neglected part of sustainability. It drives people to invest in sustainable efforts by enticing them through its long term benefits and supports both the environmental and social elements of the cause.

Basic highlighted advantages of sustainable development :-

  1. Development Activities will be long lasting.
  2. Long term management between means and resources for future generations.
  3. Appropriate Distribution of means and resources.
  4. Natural Resources are utilized wisely at optimum level.
  5. A wide and High rate of economic growth is achieved.. Etc.

Goal of sustainable development

The most important goal is to align our economic system with the realization that we do indeed have the power to alter the planet in destructive ways, and that we have, in fact, already begun doing so. Our system today was not designed to work this way. Today’s system discourages investing in the future by discounting tomorrow’s dollars as worth less than today’s.

Our balance sheets don’t measure all the things that matter including environmental and social impacts of business decisions. Any efforts to plan or invest in a responsible future must vie for attention against the overwhelming interest of the overlord investment community in quarterly earnings. These systemic forces are too big for even the biggest companies to challenge in any meaningful ways.

We must come together to ask, what do we want our world’s future to look like? If we’re to have a just and peaceful world, that answer cannot simply be left in the hands of the few billionaires that now control most of the money. All voices must be represented. Whatever collection of authorities is to take the helm of Spaceship Earth, it must be steered with the recognition that resources are not unlimited nor are places to dump our waste. There are geophysical boundaries that we dare not exceed without putting ourselves at peril, climate change being only the most immediate one.

So the goal must be for businesses, communities, citizens, political leaders, to all come together, at the widest, most inclusive scale, to consolidate our highest aspirations and to redesign the system in ways that will eliminate barriers and promote the achievement of a future where the health and well-being of our planet and everything living on it is the prime concern.

Critique of sustainable development 

 As  Mr. Dave Brunfeldt, laid and argument on the pro environmentalist and global warming activist from the west as well as in left democracies  saying  that the fundamental element in sustainability that is flawed is that there is a thing called stasis. Normal. Average. Regular. The same. No there isn’t!

Stasis is the demise of every top down plan, because nothing ever stays the same. There is no normal and you can’t plan for ever and ever, Goldilocks. Everything is temporary and sustainability is a fiction believed by the small people of the world who cower behind their notion of forever like mice behind the wall.

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