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Sustainable Development: Concept, Importance and it's need for development

Overview of the topic:

The earth is our common home where survival and development are not possible without the environment and resources available over it, but the resources responsible for our development have been available in limited quantity. These  resources due to its over exploitation have been depleting with rapid speed besides causing large number of environmental crisis and without the required state of environment survival and development would not take place. So, if we want to ensure our present as well as future needs of development we must need to conserve it.

 

Reasons for the environmental crisis:

(1) Population Explosion
  • The high rate of growth of population adversely affects the environment.
  • It increases the demand for environmental resources but their supply is limited.
  • This results in overuse and misuse of resources.
(2) Rise in Economic Activity
  • Rise in economic growth results in affluent consumption and production of goods and services.
  • It generates waste which is beyond the absorptive capacity of the environment.
(3) Rapid Industrialization
  • Rapid industrialization has led to deforestation, depletion of natural resources.
  • It leads to water contamination due to the increasing volume of toxic substances and industrial wastes into the water bodies.
(4) Urbanization
  • A large migration of population from rural to urban areas results in the fast growth of slum areas.
  • It leads to the excess burden on the existing infrastructural activities.
(5) Deforestation
  • Deforestation refers to cutting down of trees, clearing forest, etc.
  • It adversely affects the environment and causes other problems.
(6) Increased Use of Insecticides, Pesticides and Chemical Fertilisers
  • Farmers and workers suffer health problems due to increased use of poisonous insecticides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers.
  • The crop generated also contains chemical elements in it.

    Features of Sustainable Development

    Sustainable development can be achieved if we follow the following points,
  • Restricting human being
  • Technological development should be input effective and not input utilizing
  • The rate of consumption should not surpass the rate of salvation
  • For renewable resources, the rate of consumption should not surpass the rate of production of renewable substitutes.
  • All types of pollution should be minimized
  • Sensible use of Natural Resources

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