Is sustainability merely a popular issue or can it be incorporated into the broader ecological view of the environment? The sustainability concept is often mentioned in mass media in various context, politicians and celebrities juggle it, but no one tells what it really is. It may possibly seem that this “sustainability” is another popular issue which everyone will forget about next year. This, however, is wrong because in contrast to "trendy problems" sustainability is the global issue which has been taken into account by humanity a few decades ago. Moreover, this is perhaps the biggest today's issue.
According to Environment-ecology.com sustainability is the capacity to endure. It is used to describe the ability of an ecosystem to remain diverse and productive over time. This term, however, is used in the context of human civilization in the meaning of sustainable development. Sustainable development is defined as “sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. The most important question here is "why future generations might have problems?" It is because Earth is not endless as we thought before, and its resources tend to be limited. The environment provides us with raw materials for production, serves as a sink for wastes and provides direct utility for people. Sustainable development and sustainability are about taking the right amount of resources from it, dumping the amount of wastes that it can safely recycle and using it in the way that it does not degrade but remain stable over time. Sustainability is a large concept in today's understanding of the environment and is by far our most actual issue.
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