Sustainable development refers to a mode of human development that aims to meet human needs while ensuring the sustainability of economic, social and environmental systems of the present generation and the coming ones. All the countries in the world can benefit from this sustainability, especially Lebanon. However, unfortunately, Lebanese people aren’t exploiting this opportunity, specifically when it comes to the city where I come from, Jounieh. This lack of sustainability in my city is the result of several major causes.
One of these causes is the overpopulation occurring in Jounieh. This shocked overpopulation led to a great increase demand for food which has been becoming more and more limited since, as we all know, no one can live without eating. So the amount of food is being reduced gradually. And as a result, food unsustainability and food unbalance have remained the major problems in that city causing starvation, poverty and malnutrition of lots of citizens. Overpopulation also affects the amount of water provided. Once a large number of people use water for consumption, agriculture, sanitation, and for many other cases, there will be definitely a water shortage, a lack of water availability. And as a consequence, some citizens died the previous years from thirstiness and others were obliged to not have as many showers as they used to. Thereafter, many diseases began spreading between the citizens. In addition, overpopulation with a random civil organization, as in Jounieh, has negative effects related to our health since the trees, the carbon dioxide purifiers, are being cut and negative effects related to our financial situations as well, since there was a significant rising in the housing cost. And never forget the ...
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...limate change. Plants absorb the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use it to produce food and give, in return, oxygen. Once the forests were destroyed and the trees and plants were cut, the carbon dioxide remained in the atmosphere. As a consequence, the cool climate that citizens used to feel previously has been getting hotter gradually.
To sum up, unsustainability remained the major problem in Jounieh since there has been a lack of awareness about the sustainable development’s importance and lack of laws implementation, especially those that protect the ecosystem we are living in. Many root causes led to this unsustainability such as overpopulation, pollution and deforestation. This issue should be taken into consideration by the government and by the citizens themselves; otherwise the Earth is going to fall into a catastrophic issue: the unsustainability.
In unit 3 we learned about sustainability, our ecological footprints, oil resources as well as trade. The sustainability dilemma is divided into three sections that each show a way the earth is struggling to sustain us. When studying population, we learned that the global population is slowing down, but will continue to increase for at least thirty years. Furthermore, in unit 4 we learned about population change. When studying exponential growth, we learned the United Nation has three predictions for the future global population. These predictions include our population increasing rapidly, decreasing rapidly and stabilizing. These two ideas are connected because they both explore the future of our population. The diagram represents
Glaciers conserve climate records just as tree trunks preserve historical climate levels from hundreds of years ago. Researchers are able to pull out the core of glaciers in order to examine the ancient bubbles. These ancient bubbles contain levels of carbon dioxide content and past air that is from our ancestors. What they found was atmosphere dioxide never being higher than 280 parts per million. Now, atmosphere dioxide has raised to 390 parts per million within a matter of a couple of years. This change has already been affecting us. James Balog states that air is changing and basic physics of air is changing. This particular change has a great influence in: plants, animals, food, water sources, weather, and mankind. All species are endangered at this moment. All species are going into a mass extinction due to hot weather and climate change. James Balog states that we will lose half or three quarters within the next 20 years. The plants at risk will cause our air to be unfiltered. These plants are what keep our water and air clean. There is also high mortality in forest areas with larger forest fires that are almost impossible to control. More extreme fires are burning which is the cause of extreme changes in the environment. Our environment is more extreme since the greenhouse gases are raising at deadly
Climate change is a change in the Earth’s normal temperatures. Throughout Earth’s history the climate of the planet has changed drastically.(Nasa, 2015) As an example when the dinosaurs roamed the earth is was sunny and full of plants. Then the Ice Age came around and the earth was barren and cold.(Attenbrough,20--
Sustainability is the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld or confirmed. According to UN (2014), “sustainability is the procedure of development which assists the future generation ability to meet their needs with present needs. The utmost practice of sustainability is in relation to sustainability development. Sustainable development is a forming standard for human life on a determinate world (d.n, 2014).
For that reason, human beings consider the concept of sustainable development, which is defined as sustainable development, is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In an effort to control the alarming situation of endangered species, governments around the world have been taking actions on the issues of protecting specific species in danger of extinction and also their habitat, the principal engine that keeps the mechanism working is the populations, demanding governments to take actions and guarantee the accomplishment of the established norms. Even though there is an external political influence, pressure is being exerted trying to debilitate the mechanism of the system influenced by economic causes, the force of the population is too strong to break it right away. The main reasons for this danger are loss of natural habitat, air pollution and the human intervention on ecosystems. For these reasons, we should focus on causes of endangered habitat, protect, provide, consider parallel solutions, and the ways that we can preserve the habitat.
Everyone needs to respire in order to live, which includes plants and animals. Trees and plants help to regulate the carbon cycle. When the trees take in the carbon dioxide from the environment, they give back to oxygen. When trees are cut down, there is a break in the carbon cycle, and there is no exchange in both oxygen and carbon dioxide which causes a spike in carbon dioxide levels. When these occur carbon dioxide moves in the atmosphere and stores there as a greenhouse gas. “However, deforestation still remains the second leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions, just behind industrial emissions” (Culas). Greenhouse gases disturb the normal regulation of the weather. When greenhouse captures and stores heat problems occur. When the carbon dioxide levels in the greenhouse gases are increased, then the atmospheric conditions becomes unstable, which causes global warming. Global warming is the increase in the temperature of the earth, which is mostly caused by the greenhouse effects. Global warming present itself by affecting the environment by causing drought, floods, change in ecosystem, less fresh water available and other environmental issues. Trees play a big role not only in keeping the soil rich, regulating the water table, providing a stable anchor for soil to lessen soil erosion and providing nutrient rich soil for agriculture but it also helps in the absorption of carbon emission in the atmosphere.
What is also becoming increasingly clear is the effect that forests have on the climate and the climate has on forests, and how changes in one system will affect the other. Losing forest makes it worse. Clearing forests also releases large amounts of carbon dioxide. Worldwide deforestation means we don’t have as many trees to absorb the extra CO2. This means more of it stays in the atmosphere, trapping more heat. Forest are cut down for many reasons, but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families. The biggest driver of deforestation is agriculture. Farmers cut forest to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock. Often many small farmers will each clear a few acres to feed their families by cutting down trees and burning them in process known as “ slash and burn” agriculture. Therefore, not all deforestations is intentional. Some is caused by a combination of human and natural factors like wildfires and subsequent overgrazing, which may prevent the growth of young trees. Deforestations has many negative effects on the environment. The most dramatic impact is a loss of habitat for million of species. So seventy percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forest, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroy their homes. A more workable solution is to carefully manage
Sustainable development adapted after the Brundtlandt Report 1987, is a planned, aim- and process oriented procedure that meets the needs of today’s generations without endangering the needs of future generations and world regions (Ott & Döring 2004, 2006).2 The principle of sustainability describes the efforts of the international community, all countries and people to create equal opportunities for development by explicitly taking into account the interests of future generations. Most frequently the concepts of sustainability are based on a triple bottom line represented by the tree pillars – ecology, economy and social security (e.g. by the Enquete Commission, 1998). Apart from the general weaknesses of the column model that is the interchangeability of dimensions and the ignorance of (social) relatedness (c.f. Ott & Döring, 2004)3 the definition of sustainability (the model is illustrating), is seen as a bad compromise between the needs for conservation of natural resources and the aspirations for economic growth by some scholars (Döring & Muraca, 2010). Irrespective of that, the model sometimes is competed by other pillars such as “knowledge”, “institution”, ”governance”, “arts” or the like (c.f. a.o. Ott & Döring, 2004). Whereas in “Resetting the Compas...
“Sustainable Development: At its heart, sustainable development is the simple idea of ensuring a good quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come. It is about living within the carrying capacity of the environment so that how we live, work and enjoy leisure activities, which do not harm or put undue pressures on the environment. It is about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to have a decent education, a quality environment that they take pride in, good health and a decent job (n.p, 2014)”
According to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. If we follow this definition, it becomes easy to see that the vast majority of the “developed” world has not, and is not developing sustainably. The idea of sustainable development requires us to consider how our action of developing will affect other countries, and future generations. Many people believe in “the butterfly effect”, where the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in one part of t...
Humans have become a threat to our own way of life by consuming more resources than needed, blind to the consequences that we may face in the future. As of 2016 the world population is at 7.4 billion and it is estimated to be at 11.2 billion by the year 2100. However 10 billion is the maximum population that can be sustained in terms of food security, only one of the many factors to global sustainability. Due to the fact that human consumption exceeds the amount of resources available, the United Nations “recognizes that eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge” in A/RES/70/1. Sustainable development is not only required to fulfill the necessities of the present but to guarantee the capability for future generations to satisfy theirs.
In class we discussed what sustainable development meant to us; each group had its own definition. Our group’s definition was that sustainable development is for the long term for future generations, for the basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, and job. The basic will increase over time and our resources will diminish, which why sustainable development is important. Sustainable development is important for future generations so that they end up with a world better than ours. Sustainable development is achievable if society works together to meet everyone’s basic needs and create a better world.
‘Development that meets the needs of the present with the ability for the future generation to meet their own needs.’ (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) Sustainable development requires three key components: economy, society and environment, sustainable development can be success through striking balance in those factors. These three components are indispensible, they compel to depend on each other. On the other words, we can only gain a decent and energetic environment and society if the economy is strong with a healthy a stable growth rate.
Sustainable development means that the present generations should be able to make use of resources to live better lives in such a manner that it doesn’t compromise the ability of future generations to survive and make better lives for themselves as well. For sustainable development to occur, there needs to be sustainable economic, ecological and community development. Society needs to be educated about ways in which they can use resources, especially natural, in such a manner that it doesn’t cause harm to the environment and put future generations lives at risk.
World Commission on Environment and Development (1987, p.43 as cited in Baker, 2006) defined ‘sustainable development’ as ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. It is a crucial necessity for Brunei Darussalam to become a sustainable country. This is for the sake of Brunei in managing its natural resources while in unison promoting economic prosperity at the best. Although Brunei is still in its initial stage, certain sectors have made remarkable progress in the area of sustainability. Despite the fact that Brunei Darussalam is still lag behind in term of sustainable development but with high commitment and preparation Brunei Darussalam can achieve its main goal of becoming a sustainable country (Dato Paduka Hj. Idris Hj. Abas, 2009). To achieve this goal, I will address some of sustainable development strategies or initiatives in a number of fundamental areas, environments and energy resources. On top of this, I will also describe a few challenges Brunei Darussalam has to confront in attaining sustainable development.