Sustainable Development: What Does it Mean and Who Wants to Tell You?

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Copyright (c) 2008 Daniel Laflèche
Press of today's commerce and popular culture, but they are inundated with slogans of "sustainable" and "sustainability". Here, we are obliged to hoist the red flag and guard the danger ahead. These different and lawyers do great damage in many ways more of what they know.
Because in this great sea of "sustainability", which covers business strategies and systems, weight loss, one very easy to lose sight of the real battle. We know that overuse of a term can have side effects drowsiness. But the word is so popular, and its use in an exaggerated manner which has become in many cases completely dark. So, you ask, what is sustainable development? Who are his supporters and opponents? And, oh yes, it is precisely because it is so desired, after all?
Ours is an era that was under the twin pressures of population growth is increasing and the accompanying intensification of economic development. This development is necessary to provide the increasing population of the needs and desires. If rates of population growth show signs of slowing, the number of people on Earth will continue to expand massively in the near future. With the addition of the variable of impending climate change, there is a sudden and new awareness of the potentially destructive nature of the human project.
These realities have given great weight to requests for oversight, which explicitly takes into account the fate of future generations. Many definitions are taken from the shadows, but the most commonly cited is that sustainable development "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Consensus opinion that the project for sustainability covers three interactive areas, and these are (1) environmental sustainability, (2) economic sustainability, and (3) socio-political sustainability.
Environmental sustainability refers to the conservation of natural resources and environment of our planet. In its strictest sense, a process that allows natural capital (the net amount of all natural resources and other gifts of the earth), which drains more quickly than can be replenished at risk its ability to function and to serve us adequately indefinite period. Advocates of environmental protection actively seek solutions that minimize the burden of present and future of our natural environment and other industrial occupations. The best solutions are those that find ways to integrate the methods of exploitation of renewable resources.
The concept of environmental sustainability is therefore inextricably linked to the premise of economic sustainability. Rapid advances in new technologies and production techniques are constantly expanding and changing the limit of production possibilities. But ultimately, economics is the science of allocating a finite resource. Promotion of economic sustainability is therefore intended to enable future generations to achieve their optimal level, free from the limitations imposed by our operating patterns in the here and now.
The sphere of socio-political sustainability is interesting as it expands beyond the simple need for economic growth and its effects on the environment are closer to the human element in the equation. A socio-political development promotes social harmony and continuity of healthy political institutions so as to establish a mechanism in place for the entry into force of the collective will (probably a will that is conducive to sustainability).
The sustainable development project has inevitably encounter resistance. Some like to point out that the entire fiscal year involving the depletion of resources is by that very fact untenable. But if this charge is to reduce the discussion to semantics, to support the claim that the sheer impossibility of undoing major effort to court the ridiculous.
Another criticism is more important problem to address. The available data seem to confirm the wisdom of nations, as the accumulation of wealth and poverty are more willing to devote part of their income to pollution and other unpleasantries. The rich industrialized countries of the world at a time when advanced through stages similar to the dirtiest current progress of the economies in the developing world. However, at that time there were no observers or reporters. This school of critics of hypocrisy mourn. Support the "dirty" means of economic growth that rich countries can afford to ignore as the only hope for increasing mass populations abject misery. In this way, try to force the umpires, sustainable development in the unenviable position of choosing between the welfare of the poor of the earth and the earth itself.
In response to these criticisms, proponents of sustainable development to fight for national and international coordination of environmental policies, economic and social progress in promoting accountability. I realize that the world more than ever, is a system of actors, none of whose actions have no consequences for others. Its objective is the daily management of policy decisions that mankind can enjoy the benefits of our natural environment, without exhausting and without selfishness to withdraw the privilege of future generations to do the same.
Without some alarm bells, the sustainability of this color is to be respected and maintained. The dilution of the power of words by those who seek to steal his nobility, as well, unfortunately, and even resisted.

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Sustainable Development: What Does it Mean and Who Wants to Tell You?