Political Sustainability

INTRODUCTION:

As the scientific reason for environmental degradation becomes harder to discount, enlightened societies have initiated taking the visual sensation of “sustainable development,” defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development as “the ability of current generations to fulfil their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. “But while sustainable development is a desirable goal for society, critics suggest that significant, if not radical, changes in the basic assumptions behind Current situation models are needed to achieve it.

SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability is grounded on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly,

In the widest sense, political sustainability requires an Active process of cooperation and coordination between system architects, political experts and technically-trained technologists. Most significantly, the interdependence of those in the technical and political realms must be earned. This necessitates that the concerns of Congress and other stakeholders in the political process be explicitly brought into account during the technological design process. Similarly, political actors must be informed of the results of their conclusions upon the technical architectures. Communications between representatives of the President and members of Congress must be structured and then as to clearly contemplate the core values of our elected congressmen. These communications must focus on enabling forward thinking both among agencies and Congress. The purpose of the system architect in this wish is thus one of translator – the architect must be able to link the technical parameters of the engineering system under consideration to the salient values of the policy-makers who are enduring it. For this backup to be substantiated, the designer must be able to translate the long-term considerations of system design into short-term, frequently-delivered benefits to the system’s stakeholders. The concept of political sustainability does imply limits – not absolute limits, but limits imposed by existing technical capabilities and political system of budgetary resources and by the ability of the taxpayer, through Congress, to fund the human expansion into space. But technology and political governing body can be both managed and improved to make way for a new epoch of space