When I was a freshman taking part in an environmental workshop at my college, I impressed by the

term: Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Our common future, WCED,
1987). From that point on, I noticed more about the sustainable development. Though, I might not know
much about it, I totally understood that inappropriate development would lead to one thing called The
descending spiral. When our eco-system, our society and our life were on that pattern, it also meant that
everything was going to an end.

Most of us do not want this magnificent planet be destroyed, especially by human ourselves, or our
descendants living in a dried and difficult world, where is no longer the existence of animals and plants,
just starvation.
That is why United Nation quickly aware the sustainable development as challenges and opportunities.
Balancing economic, social and environmental dimensions is considered to be the basis of future
development strategies. That means fostering an allocation of resources and investments that maximizes
synergies and minimizing trade-offs among the objectives of economic growth, inclusive social progress
and environmental protection for stakeholders of society, current and future.

On the edge of global issues like overpopulation, climate change, economic crisis, etc. the need of
sustainability is more important than ever. Each element (economic, society and environment) has
impacts on the others. And only by balancing the three dimensions, we can shift to a sustainable world.