Sustainability:
If you take a look around at what’s really happening in our world, there’s an inescapable pattern of ‘what’s going on is simply unsustainable’ and in other words, it can’t go on for much longer.
Sustainability is to “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
As cities began to grow with the population increase, the need for a sustainable development became more apparent as resources began to diminish in quantity and value.
Left to it’s own devices, the Earth is a sustainable system. However, over the past two centuries, the accumulated impacts of one specific group of actors in that system, the humans, are now threatening the stability of the whole thing.
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Instead of burning fossil fuels that will be depleted within short generation, alternative energies such as the wind turbine or solar panels needs to be implemented to sustain and care for the resources that remain. The concept of reducing our Carbon footprint in the world is the more modern way of looking at sustainable living, in which the World realises humans have not used resources wisely.
By looking at the changes over the past centuries, an International network of scientists have unanimously concluded that human society is altering natural functions in three fundamental ways. And consequently, they were able to define four basic conditions that must be met if we want to maintain the environmental services that sustain human society.
To become a sustainable society, we must eliminate our contributions to:
No1. The increase of concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth’s crust (heavy metals and fossil fuels)
No2. The increase of concentrations of substances produced by society (plastics, dioxins and DDT)
No3. The physical degradation of nature and natural processes (harvesting forests and destroying habitat)
And finally, conditions that undermine peoples capacity to meet human needs (unsafe working condition and low
Other problems develop such as workers being killed from construction, strikes from workers, and the
As you can see, bad working conditions were highly influential in the negative side of
At what point are we going to take responsibility and protect the Earth instead of allowing it to be destroyed? The Earth can only handle a so much growth before it reaches its max sustainability. In each text, sustainability refers to how much growth the Earth can maintain without being destroyed. Wendell Berry, Jared Diamond, and Bill McKibben all use rhetoric to appeal to their audience using ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is an appeal to the audience’s ethics.
Additionally, the time in which people are giving to work leads to major consequences in health. The overworking of people can cause great fatigue, and working conditions can lead to the deterioration of someone’s wellness and health. In order to not obtain a disease, one must maintain healthily. And with “the formation of all habits of cleanliness obstructed by defective supplies of water”, the citizens do not even have the chance to be well (Document 6). With the overworking of the people, one would not be given the time it needs to take care of one’s self.
Such settings are associated with higher levels of poor nutrition, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking and lack of physical activity. · How does the issue impact on their cultural safety and willingness to engage with providers of community and health services? Why? It will impact them mostly from unemployment and being homeless which will stop them from having good
North America is increasingly using more and more resources, which results in outsourcing, increased pollution, and more. However, we are not at wits end; there are things we all can do, and have done as an entire continent to keep ourselves from over consumption. One example is removing disposable plastic utensils, and using paper
The world is changing now. The climate around the world is rising due to all the greenhouse gasses that have been produced by generating electricity. 35% of the energy we use now is petroleum, 20% natural gasses, and 18% with
As Americans we believe that the resources on Earth we use on a daily basis are renewable, and very abundant, however that is not the case. I will admit that I am one of these people, and after taking the quiz to figure out my ecological footprint I found that it would take five planet Earths to support my lifestyle if everyone lived like me. My life style utilizes 24.4 global acres of Earth’s productive area. Services, shelter, and good are the 3 categories that make up most of my foot print. Now that I am aware of the problem it is time to address it.
Although not much can be done to emission of GHGs from natural sources, but emission through human activities can be evaluated and corrective measures can be suggested so as to minimize them. Carbon footprinting is the measure
I agree with the assertion that in the context of Sustainable Development ‘the reality of life today is that the economy dominates environment and society. The Concept of Sustainable Development Sustainable development refers to “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”, and was produced by the Brundtland report (WCED, 1987). The concept also takes into account the needs of the poor in developing countries by outlining achievable objectives of importance (WCED, 1987).
Introduction: “Sustainable agriculture is the efficient production of safe high quality agricultural products, in a way that protects and improves the natural environment the social and economic conditions of farmers their employees and local communities and safe guard the health and welfare of all farmed species“ There are three main principles of sustainable agriculture, the three principles are: 1. Economic sustainability 2. Environmental sustainability 3. Social sustainability With the human population continuing to rise, it is vital that the agricultural industry becomes more sustainable to meet the needs of the growing population. One of the impacts of this growing population is an increase in land usage for settlement purposes.
The conclusion conveyed at the end of this paper, will be that sustainable development is a concept with weaknesses however, the strengths outweigh them. To begin with, the concept of sustainable development famously culminated in 1987 with the United Nations 'Commission on Environment and Development ' also known as the 'Brundtland Report ' (Everard & Longhurt, 2017; pp. 1244). The article introduced, the most widely known definition of Sustainable development as "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987).
As the result of my experience this semester I can conclude that this experience was a life changing experience. The way I viewed things in the past about the environment has changed. In the past I was not aware of the importance of living a more sustainable life. Also, how protecting our environment is one of the today’s most serious issues. Some of issues and information that I learned throughout this semester was the web life, food web, overpopulation, mutualism & commensalism, climate change, pollution, rainforest & sea destruction, and the extinction of many animals and plants.
Environmental sustainability considers the ways through which resources will not be used up faster than they are being replenished, and the transition toward low carbon emissions despite the increasing population. Figure 3.1: The Three Pillars of Sustainable Development Source: Kahn (1995) The theoretical framework used by Kahn explains the need to integrate and appropriately co-ordinate the economic, social and environmental units of a country to achieve sustained social and economic development. In other words, to realise qualitative growth rather than
Green growth and green economy have been subject to various definitions but those currently being used by international organizations have a lot in common. Greening growth (GG) and moving towards a greener economy (GE) is complex and multidimensional. Green growth is a matter of both economic policy and sustainable development policy. It tackles two key imperatives together: the continued inclusive economic growth needed by developing countries to reduce poverty and improve wellbeing; and improved environmental management needed to tackle resource scarcities and climate change. The concept of green economy rests on the economy, the environment and the social pillars of sustainable development.