Sustainable Development
and Green Technology
Most
expansively recognized definition of sustainable development was given by the
Brundtland Report, released by the United Nations in 1987. The definition avows
that: "Sustainable development is development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs." [1] Sustainable Development calls
attention to an approach of human maturation in which resource utilization points
at satisfying human want while entrenching the sustainability of natural
arrangements and environment. Despite its huge vogue in late 20th
century, the notion of sustainable development proved arduous to apply in
several cases, chiefly because of the indelible outcomes of the sustainability
scrutinizes confide in the distinct resources directed upon. The complexity of
human want has overwrought Mother Nature to a very precarious ambit, due to
which the whole concept of sustainability looks a distant star in which human
development might backslide to fulfill its own needs, leaving the future
generations in a state of mirage. To combat this dilemma, green technology
equips the human race with an impeccable weapon to bring innovation and changes
in daily life of similar magnitude to the information and industrial technology
explosion over the last couple of centuries. The field of green technology
besets a progressively educing faction of methods and materials, from techniques
to engender energy to innocuous cleaning products. The preeminent objective of
green technology is to evolve substitutes to technologies- whether fossil fuels
or chemical intensive agriculture that have been manifested to impair health
and the ambiance. Perhaps the most indispensable concern for green technology
encompasses the advancements of alternative fuels, state-of-the-art means of
developing energy and energy sufficiency. The authors through this paper
conclude that the human race neglects most of the issues pertinent to the
interests of environment making it a small player in the multi dollar
industrial growth but to which it is a major contributor.
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[1] World Commission on Environment and Development."Our Common
Future, Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development". Un-documents.net.
Retrieved 2011-09-28.
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