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This effort will help companies with innovative technologies flourishing all across the globe, people will have
better jobs, everyone will be able to afford nutritious foods without moving out of their native place, living in a
clean, healthy setup with proper sanitation facilities, they will have quality and affordable education, and technical
advancement to bring social and economic equality while keeping the environment safe.
Importance of Sustainable Development
We now know that sustainable development focuses on saving the planet along with the social and economic
development of society for the present and future generations to come. The importance of sustainable development
lies in the fact that:
• It initiates and promotes approaches for development, conservation, and protection of natural resources to stop
environmental degradation.
• It makes us aware of the sensible consumption of our natural resources by reducing, recycling, and reusing
available resources.
• It gives solutions in terms of clean energy usage at all levels by efficient use of wind, solar, water energy, etc.
• It ensures environmentally sustainable economic growth.
• It provides methods and alternatives to reduce the impact of air, water, and soil pollution on our environment.
• It supports equality of income, sex, age, disability, race, religion and opportunity for social and economic
development of the society.
• It supports the concept of smart and sustainable cities with developed transport, clean water and sanitation,
quality education, and decent employment to all.
• It promotes the use of more environment friendly technologies based on the efficient use of resources.
• All the nations across the globe are together in support of implementing these goals in an effective manner.
Problems Related to Sustainable Development
There are three major problems related to sustainable development. Let us discuss them one-by-one.
Food
As we are using up more and more land for designing concrete jungles, we are reducing the land for cultivation of
crops. Soil nutrients are also depleting due to pollution from industries, overgrasing of land etc. Overpopulation is
another threat for the shortage of food all across the world.
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