Economic And Environmental Sustainability Essay

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Economic and Environmental Sustainability My friends, I need not pause to tell you how happy I am to be standing here this morning, and to be given the opportunity to speak to all of you about the subject of Sustainability, that is, Economic and Environmental Sustainability in the interest of future generations. There is something fundamentally wrong with our world. I don’t think we have to look far to see that. We simply have to look outside our windows, where the skies are now the colour of ash and the ocean the colour of tar. Right now, the world is all about the money. For instance, there is never a news outlet, or a media outlet for that matter, that does not display an advertisement of some sort. Afterall, GOOGLE’s main source of profit is online-advertisements: people trying to generate more demand for their product so they can sell more of their product with the sole purpose to generate more revenue. In fact, marketing and advertising is one of the biggest industries worldwide, which has now been made so much easier with the growing technological advances of the modern era. When a product is in high demand, it means the manufacturing companies must produce more of it. An economist will think …show more content…

Unsustainable development is happening here in Indonesia. For the past few years, Indonesia has experienced significant growth that did not happen without significant sacrifice, especially with our president Mr. Joko Widodo and his goal to have Indonesia’s economy growing at 7%, hopefully by the end of his term (“Indonesia Cuts Interest Rates In Effort To Boost Growth”) . Now, Indonesia is only at 5%, which, in economic terms, is far away from 7% (“Indonesia Cuts Interest Rates In Effort To Boost Growth”). This means he is going to enforce more policies with the resulting cost of more damage to the environment. Our environment. And I see the damage first

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