Analysis Of The Brundtland Report: Environment

The Brundtland report: Environment

This chapter focuses on environmental protection, by reference to cars and CO2 emission in Brazil.

The importance of environmental protection was the catalytic factor which induced the awareness of global concerns and gave momentum to the shift of mentality towards the importance of finding a sustainable path for development (From Brundtland To Rio 2012). The environmental section in the Brundtland report was based on a link between environmental degradation, poverty and inequality.

Brundtland report stresses that the impoverished people will not be able to achieve improvements of living standards, without damaging the environment (Down To Earth), which means that environmental and development cannot be

E.g: when arable land is used beyond its threshold of exhaustion it will cause a degradation of the natural conditions which inevitably leads to erosion and infertile soil. (Brundtland, 1987) This interlinkage of natural conditions has to be considered when handling environmental issues, since by succeeding at improving one factor of the environment can lead to an improvement of another, therefore by protecting forests soil conservation will be more likely.

There happens to be even further linkages between the dimensions such as environmental and economic development. Energy strategies are related with the global greenhouse, with deforestation for fuelwood in several developing countries. Environmental impacts and economic issues are bound to several social and political aspects. For example the fast population growth that have an influence on the environment and the development in several areas is partly driven by the woman role in the society and culture values. Environmental impacts and rough development can upturn social

Third, “acidification of the environment from the same causes” (Brundtland, 1987). And finally, the danger of nuclear power accidents, and the issue of waste disposal and device after their service life are over. Besides these problems, a main problem arises, in form of an increased scarcity of fuel wood in the developing countries. Fuel mix a virtual quadrupling of coal and a doubling of gas use, alongside with 1.4 times as much oil, could mean that by 2020, it could cause a global warming. And there is no technology that would be able to remove CO2 emissions from fossil fuel