Friday 26 March 2010

What is meant by the term “sustainability”?

“Sustainability is a concept which deals with mankind's impact, through development, on the environment. Sustainable Development is ‘development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’ Today's environmental problems, like air pollution, are largely a consequence of the unsustainable consumption of natural resources and the mismanagement of waste products. Sustainability is about environmental protection, sustained economic growth and social equity”
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/Sustainability/sustainability.html
This really brings up a few issues of what sustainable actually means. On one hand it means, our problems with the environment, and what we can do within the products to reduce carbon dioxide, whether it’ll be the material Is amazing at bio degrading, or the fact it can last so long, you just simply use it again and again.
It’s really just an issue with ourselves, and what we can do to stop the massive amounts of rubbish which is being stored up in our world today. We’re really just thinking about the future needs, and whether we can produce the right products to help them.

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