Importance of Sustainable Development

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

Know how to manage and take advantage of the resources that society has around them in harmony with nature, and work with techniques/models of optimization and solution according to long-term thinking and potentiating resources, constitutes a process of growth of the Humanity. The notion arose at the end of the 20th century as a result of international projects and exhibitions that analyzed the wear and tear and abuse of human beings with their economic growth, technological and social has generated over time on the environment. Thus, this novel concept arises, which supposes being able to maintain levels of growth and development that benefit the different regions of the globe, but that do not imply continue with this environmental abuse, but, on the contrary, are based on the use of renewable energies, on the recycling of materials that can be reused, etc

Sustainable development tells us that human beings are capable enough to create new subsistence methods that are not based on damage to the environment, but that do not imply backwardness either. Thus, for the defenders of this type of theory, it is important (and also urgent) to resort to new energies that are based on the use of renewable and non-exhaustable resources such as oil, new forms of trade and consumption that do not focus on the notion of disposable and transgenic products, but on the presence of organic, healthy products that do not transform the around.

In addition, it supposes the use of resources such as trees, but always ensuring that everything that is used must be replaced in order not to cause damage. Finally, it also seeks to limit the use of a trade in products that involves very extensive transport, since it is considered that this generates consequences due to the constant use of oil. Thus, an attempt is made to stimulate the trade of local products in each region that also contributes to the development of the native communities of each particular space.

Be aware and take responsibility for your actions

Climate change, the imbalance in the generation and distribution of resources that guarantee the optimum quality of life for people through satisfaction of their most basic vital needs, and the deterioration of ecosystems, are only three of the multiple factors that have been generated as a consequence of the unnatural procedure that humanity has maintained throughout the last centuries, finding ourselves almost on the brink of reaching the point of no return to achieve remedy it.

The human being, as he developed his own physical skills and mental abilities, used more and more resources. complex, in order to simplify his own life, while his creative capacity gave way to engineering with as fast growth as that of the populations themselves, which in turn ended up imprinting the need for urban development in accordance with the new lifestyles of the societies. As time and progress passed, the harmonious balance between man and nature became more distant, until reaching the point of even being a totally unknown concept for the most recent generations, and the impacts of this ecological rupture have not taken long to become see.

naturally modeled

Each existing species on Earth has evolved based on the resources and specific characteristics of its own environment, a principle that therefore should also govern the human species, however, the superior capacity of these particular bipeds having managed to move from one place to another, geographically as distant as climatologically different, adapting to almost any scenario and generating benefit from all kinds of resources, without a doubt, it marked the overwhelming difference within any ecological forecast possible.

However, the recovery of harmony between human activities and the natural balance of terrestrial life is a possible reality - at less on a small scale – that can be modeled through the understanding of the existing dynamics in nature, for the adoption of a great variety of mechanisms, both natural and technological, under a new approach oriented towards the sustainable development of the activity human.

reducing impacts

Elimination of waste released into the environment, discharged into the water and accumulated in the soil seems to be a task without a quick solution, however, the development of new technologies focused on the recycling of waste and the reduction of pollutants produced by industries, puts manifest a real potential for reducing the negative impacts caused, also opening the doors to the creation of companies manufacturers of sustainable solutions, such as those for the manufacture of solar panels for the generation of electricity through sunlight.

Both strategies, along with the growing intention to develop urban areas with homes made using techniques and resources in harmony with the environment, in which comprehensive mechanisms are also usually implemented so that their inhabitants can live in the most sustainable way possible, are part of the solutions that are beginning to demonstrate not only their feasibility, but also the effectiveness of their results, as improvements can be verified in a short time environmental conditions in the areas where they are being implemented, as well as in the quality of life of the people who already enjoy their natural integration with the environment. around.

Small contributions for a big change

Contribute to the reversal of the problems caused by the environmental impact, can be in many cases through the adoption of habits, practices and simple technology, specifically focused on reducing any polluting effect that we produce, such as the creation of handicrafts such as toys and fashion accessories, through the reuse of waste materials of low degradability with a high polluting impact for the environment. atmosphere.

Despite the versatility and even all the economic advantages that the mechanisms for the sustainable development of the vast majority of solutions to our basic needs represent, there is still a long way to go before achieving significant transformations, always needing to start from the most basic and elemental matter first, the change of mentality and vision that we have about how we relate to the environment and the development of the necessary awareness to make us part of the necessary transformation that can guarantee survival of all life on the planet, plus any contribution that can be made towards the cause will end up adding great benefits to those who decide to assume a more sustainable way in their relationship with the environment. atmosphere.

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