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.
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Harris. J.M. 2000 Basic Principles of Sustainable Development, Global and Environment Institute Working Paper 00-04, USA
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