In their publication, Common Future (also called Brundtland Report), published in 1987, they defined a sustainable development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations.
A definition of sustainable development How do we ensure that future generations are not compromised?
In a limited world with a constantly growing population and economy, natural resources are used up faster than they can be regenerated.
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Those who will suffer when no sustainability is achieved are the beneficiaries of the sustainability concept!Beneficiaries = people + animals + plants
I think this is what people forget. Our dependence on fossil fuels might power our lives now, but what about years from now? What will we do when there is nothing else left to mine? No trees left to cut down? No material left to burn? If we put the work in now to switch to renewable energy, our future generations may not feel the impact of our actions as heavily. They will have the chance to LEARN from our mistakes and not work to fix them when we could not.
The environmental sustainability comes first. The social and economic sustainability are depending subsystems.
A proper definition of sustainability must reflect this but ALSO mention the other parts of sustainability.
The more scientific information about the severe effects of global warming is published, the more people start to ignore or deny the effects of climate change.
This is what makes the idea of sustainability more important than ever!
Therefore, of the three, environmental sustainability must be society’s top priority.
Without environmental sustainability, there can be no social or economic sustainability. If the environment is not being taken care of, it will impact the wellbeing of people and their community.
Whereas social sustainability depends on economic sustainability and vice versa, both, strongly depend on environmental sustainability.
Three dimensions of sustainability: social sustainability, economic sustainability, and environmental sustainability.
Instead of focusing on environmental sustainability, today, the term sustainability has expanded even further
Sustainability does not just have to do with the planet and our environment.
Today’s inflationary and unrelated use of the sustainability term is weakening the meaning of the underlying concept.
I think this is important to realize. A lot of people just through around the word "sustainability" and have no idea what it means or actually entails.