Influence Of Sustainability On The Environment

What I thought before the course

My understanding about sustainability was that we need to protect our planet. The general living conditions in 19th century declined and we need to take actions immediately to ensure a better future for new generations. Global warming, waste, pollution, ozone hole, increasing population are only some of the issues we need to combat to ensure future generations will be able to survive.

Many of the products we use on a daily basis, including energy, are made from non-renewable resources, particularly coal, oil and minerals. There are enormous amounts of these resources available worldwide. There is a limit to how much is there, and we will, in the long run, use it all. Protection and recycling can make these resources last for a much longer time.

Many businesses and governments are conscious of actions needed and have started implementing new approaches and regulations to reduce their damaging impact on the environment. However, there are still too many

Ecocentrism concentrates on organic, animal rights, restoration ecology, ethical priority and voluntary simplicity. Technocentrism is driving efficiency in the allocation of resources, believing that growth is good and the free mobility of capital, evidently very capitalism. Sustaincentrism is concerned with earth ecological health to sustain a prosperous humanity that balances economy, human rights, ecology and ethics.

Gladwin and Kennelly further argued that sustainable development should have the elements of inclusiveness (time & space of human development), connectivity (interdependence of ecology, social and economy), equity (fairness of interspecies, intergenerational, intergenerational), prudence (duties of care and prevention) and security (safety from chronic threats) to embrace both human and the environmental