Sustenance and development are both essential for a good quality of life for human beings at present and promises a good life for the generations to come as well.
Literally, sustainable means ‘that can be kept going or maintained’. Development means “the action or process of growing or cause of gradual growth. Concept of sustainable development is therefore, commonly understood as that development which meets the need of the present generation without compromising the needs of the future generations.
The world is not going to come to an end with us and hence we do not need to eat way all the resources in the name of development just because we can. Sustainable growth in context of environment means having common elements of covering the well-being of the society of human beings, the well-being of the environment and the well being of environment and sustainability over time.
1. Equality
Equality is essential for a sustainable development. This concept promotes equality between ages, genders, classes, races, continents and countries.
2. Social Development
Concept of sustainable development emphasizes on not only economic development, but also on social development and the need to conserve our environment and natural resources too.
3. Inclusive approach
Any growth that is exclusive is not right. Sustainable development has to be inclusive. It is based on the improved quality of life for everyone, mainly the deprived and the poverty-stricken people of the world.
4. Human-Environment Harmony
It understands that the needs of human beings and the requirements of the environment are interdependent and acknowledges this fact.
5. Co-operation
Sustainable development is possible only if the developed world and the developing worlds co-operate and the former support the latter in their endeavors whenever they can, through subsidies, for instance.
The human population is rising day by day. Their demands too are on rise. There is a need of natural resources to meet these demands. What we have done till now is followed an economic growth pattern that is short-term. In the process, we have misused the resources of nature and exploited them recklessly. As a result, we are short of these resources. The Earth that we live on is not capable of providing for the resources to meet our accelerating needs. We face the consequences if this imbalance in the form of climate changes in our everyday life. The magnitude of such challenges might just accelerate for our future generation. Hence we need a development plan that’s long term, even if slow and gives us time to replace the resources we consume through measures like planting a tree, etc. This is not only for our own good; we also need this for the sake of our future generation as well as to maintain a healthy environment.
For meeting our present needs as well as saving for our future generation, we need a proper and need-based, not greed-based consumption pattern. The following aspects are essential for the same.
We should, therefore, avoid all such development patterns that will ignite environmental degradation resulting from economic decisions we make today and which jeopardizes the situation for our posterity. Concept of sustainable development is the right way to go.
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