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Importance of Sustainable Development
We now know that sustainable development focuses on saving the planet along with social and economic
development of the society for the present and future generations to come. The importance of sustainable
development lies in the fact that:
• It provides initiation and approaches for development, conservation and protection of natural resources to stop
environmental degradation.
• It makes us aware of sensible consumption of our natural resources by reducing, recycling and reusing our
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 uses more environment friendly technologies based on 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 about them.
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 getting depleted due to pollution from industries, overgrazing of
land etc. Overpopulation is another threat for the shortage of food all
across the world.
Water
The supply of drinking fresh water from rivers and ponds are limited all
over the world. Due to pollution these water bodies are contaminated
and leaving with very less quantity of water for actual use.
Fuel
Forests are cut down for fuel leaving barren land where soil erosion will
lead to soil degradation and a drastic change in climatic conditions.
Increase in the consumption of oil and natural gas has led to the
increase in the level of carbon dioxide causing a change in the climatic
conditions. We are using a lot of wood from trees for the construction
of homes and furniture. Extreme weather conditions, such as floods,
extreme cold, or heat, are seen in many places, which affect the people
living there.
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