You are on page 1of 1

Sustainability, so what do you mean by the word sustainability,

It is meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their
own needs.
And sustainability is interwoven with activities pertaining to globalization and economic development.
Since these two emphasize the importance for everyone to have an awareness on conserving the
natural environment as well as the need for countries to act in concerted way in order to address
global environmental issues and the destructive effect that the production of material goods and their
consumption by humans can have on the natural surroundings.

You may recognize that sustainability has to do with preserving or maintaining resources.
We often associate sustainabilty with things like recycling, using renewable energy sources like solar
and power, and preserving spaces like reinforests and coral reefs.
However, unless you have an inherent interest in sustainability, you probably have’nt thought much
about what the term actually means.
Sustainability is the capacity to endure or continue, and can be broadly defined as the ability of
something to maintain itself. Biological systems such as wetlands or forests are good example of
sustainability, since they remain and productive over long periods of time. Seen in this way,
sustainability has to do with preserving resources and energy over the long term rather than
exhausting them quickly to meet short-term needs or goals.
Sustainability accounts for the need to preserve natural spaces, to use resources wisely, and to
maintain them in equitable manner for all human beings, both now and in the future

You might also like