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In understanding sustainability, every human being plays an important role. Sustainability can be defined as how human beings depend on the environment for various needs while ensuring that what the environment is offering them, would not be depleted so that the future generation can also benefit. Sustainability is best simplified as everything that the human population needs from the environment so as to maintain their survival (ABC-CLIO, 2012). The dependence can be either direct or indirectly, depending on the relationship between man and nature. In such instances, sustainability helps in ensuring that man and nature coexist in harmony while social and economic needs are achieved so as
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It involves environmental changes that prove to be negative in the long run. Such environmental changes include, the ozone layer depleting, loss of biodiversity, mass becoming extinct, degradation of land and the ecosystem, drought and increase of the desert space, water shortage crisis, and air and water pollution by harmful toxins released in the atmosphere and climate change. All these problems have some things in common (Smith, 1997). First, they all seem to be long term hence affecting the future generations. Secondly, they are all pervasive and exist in large scale. Sustainability crisis has evolved in the recent past to merge up with human caused problems, thus, becoming more serious and deadly. Human problems are quite evident in the present economic times. These problems include, war, excess population and overfishing. When they all merge up, they threaten the survival of man by negatively affecting the public health and livelihood of human beings. The person that is mostly affected is the poor person who does not have much to offer. As seen, Sustainability crisis evidently makes human condition unsustainable (Martin, …show more content…
People need to focus on economic globalization so as to prevent a global crisis. The effect of globalization on sustainability has been observed in previous years. Globalization has improved competence levels by making man be able to compete fully in the market. Division of labor has improved productivity globally, hence, the level of food products and other products has increased (Smith, 1997). This has helped to minimize food crisis. Globalization has also empowered countries to develop economically. By this, some countries like the United States of America have managed to evade a financial crisis. Sustainability crisis has also been characterized by increase in poverty levels. However, through globalization, the millennium development goals that were arrived at through a globalization process, poverty level has decreased significantly over the years (McKinnon,
Globalization helps many people achieve greatness. But for the majority it brings hardships and struggle. People will be plagued by the effects of globalization and will have a tough time over coming it. We are far from reaching a point where we can say we have sustainable prosperity throughout our world. But before we focus in on sustaining prosperity, we must first reach prosperity and bring it to all corners or the earth.
“Globalization contributes to sustainable prosperity for all people”. This quote contains mostly truth but there are also many arguments towards how globalization really does contribute to sustainable prosperity for people all around the world. This can be supported by three main points. How the rise of Japan’s economy effected the lives of millions of people. How shipwrecking effects the lives of both the ship companies and the workers in Bangladesh, and how economic growth contributes to the sustainable prosperity of the population in a specific nation. Sustainable prosperity can be defined differently from different individuals because of people’s personal opinions and their perspective is also effected by the people who influence their lives the most, but the main definition of prosperity is to have good fortune, or growth in an economic way. Globalization creates a gateway for sustainable prosperity to all people and gives people all around the world the opportunity to gain prosperity.
Sustainability is a balance of economy and ecology. That is, how we satisfy human needs and still preserve what we have in nature. Examples of this are the forest industry and energy. We must find ways to harvest a forest without destroying the forest. Similarly, we must find practical alternatives to energy sources, such as solar and wind power, so that we don't harm the atmosphere and deplete natural resources.
Globalization contributes to sustainable prosperity in many ways. In order to have sustainable prosperity everyone has to be willing to aid others, no one can achieve such sustainability for everyone without the aid of others. Humans have the potential to overcome great disasters and catastrophes with the help of globalization.
Sustainability is concerned with the long-term and holistic survival of the planet and its populations, including humans. It means that immediate economic growth is less important than deve...
There has been a vast advancement in the industrial development. The development of plastic has been a boon to the modern era. The development and advancement in the modern technology has played significant role in the various stages of the modernization. Although the introduction to plastics has been a significant step in the industrialization, the excessive use of the plastic products has affected environmental sustainability. Proper planning is very essential to implement the sustainability actively. There are many steps taken by various businesses to minimize the harm the plastics can do to the environment by reduce, reuse and recycle. One of the recent examples of planning to strengthen sustainability is by Walmart Inc. It has taken initiative
The concept of “sustainability” is a vital part of our society. Herndl compares sustainability to the concept of freedom “As you might expect, it is not easy to define a concept that has so many applications. It is equally difficult to define “freedom” in a way that makes everyone happy and captures all the fine distinctions of the concept” (Herndl xxii). The way I see it, is that sustainability is how we maintain our world and the conditions that we have under what we all exist in harmony.
Sustainability can also be well-defined as a capability or aptitude of a thing to be upheld or to sustain the situation. It’s about what are essential to survive currently, deprived of risking the probable for societies in the future to encounter their requirements. a good example of sustainability is to practice wind energy.
The economy and technology of late decades has grown with leaps and bounds. Mobile phone, Internet reduce the space and time between human beings. The globe is getting smaller, the way of people thinking is changing which means the whole society is experiencing a profound evolution. However, in this information explosion age, human society has to face unprecedented crisis- The gradual depletion of global natural resources and the sharply deteriorated of human’s living environment. People begin to have a strong feeling of losing control of these crisis. Therefore, sustainable development is being highly regarded.
Sustainability is when something can be used and not be depleted, destroyed, or damaged past recovery. As we work to live sustainably, we are in effect making use of our resources in a fashion that doesn't eliminate them, and doesn't harm their source. Our resources come from the environment around us and we need to make sure that it is not harmed as we use it. According to the EPA, sustainability stems from a single principle that "Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment” (Sustainability Information). Considering this, it's obvious why we need to make sure we live sustainably and do not damage the source of our resources, our environment.
Since the diverse resources are an important impetus for human development, it is necessary to utilize resources efficiently and appropriately. On the other hand, to find a balance between protecting environment and ensuring human’s health is imperative. Thus, ensuring environmental sustainability can help both ecosystems and human development. If we can handle this issue well, I believe that we and our offspring can enjoy our lives in a better
Sustainability must be defined to include meeting human physical, emotional and social needs (Rogers et al. 2012) and scholarly research and thinking on well being and its connection to the environment, sustainability, growth and sustainable development considers aspects that move towards social and environmental benefits . While environme...
There is no hesitation when it comes to whether humans impact the global environment. However, it is questioned in whether human’s ecological footprint is either negatively or positively impacting. In clear perspective, humans share from both sides and their ecological footprint is noted towards whether it will benefit or harm the environment around them. Topics such as overpopulation, pollution, biomagnification, and deforestation are all human impacted and can harm the environment, but some include benefits into helping the world around us with solutions to their problems.
Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Döring & Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1
There is no doubt that human activity is having a significant impact on our environment. These environmental impacts include depleting our natural resources, air and water pollution, climate change, destruction of habitats, and loss of biodiversity. Because of these growing concerns, we need to learn how to live sustainably. Living sustainably will allow us to conserve our limited resources more wisely so they will be available for future generations (Withgott & Brennan, 2011, Chapter 1).