SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY

Why Is It Important To Develop A Sustainable Society?



Why Is It Important To Develop A Sustainable Society?

Introduction

Since the '70s, mankind began to realize that many of their actions produced a great impact on the nature, so some experts said the apparent loss of biodiversity and developed theories to explain the vulnerability of natural systems. The impact on the nature in turn, also meant that the society was also getting affected. That is when the mankind started working towards the development of the society, in order to achieve a sustainable society (Adams, Simon, Lambert, 2006).

A society is sustainable when it is organized and behaves so that, through generations, it is able to guarantee the lives of its citizens and the ecosystems in which it is inserted. The more a society is founded on renewable and recyclable resources, more sustainable states. This does not mean you cannot use nonrenewable resources, but in doing so, you must rationally, especially for the sake of the only Earth we have, and in solidarity with future generations. There are abundant resources such as coal, aluminum and iron, with the advantage that they can be recycled (Adams, Simon, Lambert, 2006).

Discussion

Why is it important to develop a sustainable society?

The concept of a sustainable society development reflects a growing awareness of the contradiction between developments can occur, primarily understood as economic growth and improving the material standard of living, and the ecological and social development that can endure over time. This awareness of the human, natural and environmental development and progress has come to change the attitude of carelessness or justification that long prevailed. The idea of economic growth without limits and towards which all could sacrifice came to be replaced by an awareness of these limits and the importance of creating conditions that enable long-term well-being for present generations not to make the price of a threat or deterioration of living conditions of future humanity (Brew, 2005).

Sustainable society development is accepted solely on environmental issues. More broadly, sustainable society development policies affect three areas: economic, environmental and social. In support of this, several United Nations texts, including the Final Document of the World Summit in 2005, refer to the three components of a sustainable society development, which are economic development, social development and protection of the environment, such as "interdependent and mutually reinforcing" (Brew, 2005).

The Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity delves further into the concept by stating that cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature "It becomes" a the roots of development understood not only in terms of economic growth, but also as a means to achieve a more satisfying balance intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual". In this vision, cultural diversity is the fourth policy area of a sustainable society development. In line with the organization are oriented conceptual world cities with the Agenda 21 for culture (Brew, 2005).

The "green development" is usually distinguished from the development in the green development can be seen in terms of giving priority to what some ...