Sustainable Environment?

[STOIC]

What do the economists or ecologists mean when they say the word economic sustainability or ecological sustainability? We as a people define sustainability as a system that preserve natural system and social system of our communities. We make sure that our health and economic conditions are preserved for our future generations. The principles of a sustainable society that is agreed universally includes improve the quality of human life, enabling communities to care for their own environment, providing a national development for integrating development and conservation together and above all conserve the earth vitality and diversity.

 

 

The Rio declaration on Environment and development (Earth Summit 1992) recognized that it is not only the traditional measure of economic welfare that matters. Quality of life and well-being are determined by the state of people health, income, vibrant communities, and environmental quality! The summit declared that a sustainable integrated approach is needed to achieve this goal. This goals can be achieved by engaging the citizens in a common vision of long term community, economic and ecosystem health that is build around the local culture values. We need to develop economic opportunities that provides for the needs of the local people. This reiterates the importance of addressing poverty by expanding the community development. The continuous self-production of our economic system depends on stock of natural capital flow for example useful goods and services such as fish, breathable air, and soil formation flows from our ecosystem. Natural capital is irreversible, unlike constructed capital, which can be rebuilt; destructions of our biodiversity can be lethal.

 

 

We need to promote a pattern of consumption and production that reduce environment stress while at the same time empowering the economic power of our communities. It has been largely agreed that production and consumption are embedded in our cultural beliefs. We all need to move onto a path that will leads us all to a more cultural change in our Somali communities. Lets all try to transform our self-interest goods into a common-pool resource system for our future generations and remember that ruin will be our destination if we each pursue our best interest without caring about our fellow citizens.

 

HAPPY MLK DAY,THANK YOU DR KING!!

[Chocolate and Honey]

Ina-abti. Global warming and Envioremental exhoustion are scary tactics employed by the west! Now that they cant dare to dream to exploit or enslave other races and rob their resources, they've issued *Warning* signs to stop the so-called "Devoloping" countries to devolop and expand economically. I have read this article(in my Ethics class) and it truelly blew my mind. The article is based on a research conducted by Kenyan scients and it basically analyzes the so-called "exponential human growth" and the idea that we will soon run out of land. Total bulshidh! The "devoloped" countries currently use two-thirds of the world resources. And they dare say the "third world" countries are polluting the otmosphere and exhousting natural resources by producing more people so they need to practice family planning. Lets face it poverty exists only because the robbed victim doesnt have the power to voice thier opinion because they feel so indebted to the robber. . We wouldnt exhoust natural resources if we shared out bounties equally . So the greedy west needs to stop the bullying and give back the coffe-beans lands to their rightfull owners so they can grow a food to eat :mad:

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[N.O.R.F]

Interesting thread.

 

Sustainability is something in great use today (in the west). In housing, economics, environment and development. But would sustainability be possible in the horn without a carefully planned and developed infrastruture? All these concepts are well and good but without a basic infrastrre ie roads, govn't, telecommunications etc, then sustainability is not possible. Each country'ss sustainability comes about as a result of their respective governments foresight in seeing there is a need for such a scheme in all departments. This is usually done through the planning department of local authoritie resulting from a trickle down effect ie a govnt policy where the responsibility for enforcing it is passed down to local authorities. This is a result of a govnt infrastruture who are in-turn looking out for the good of their people and their country.

 

We need to develop economic opportunities that provides for the needs of the local people.

Again, the fundamental issue that will open up all sorts of economic opportunities and prosperity is the ability for people to get around. The more people are exposed to economic activities (whether seller or consumer) in more places the faster your above statement will become the norm.

[STOIC]

Northerner, I am personally not an Economist but from my point of view economics occurs in the context of value system that guides our market priorities. Societies rank the priorities of allocating choices in the context of benefit/cost analysis. Your argument of good infrastructure comes in as a good economic rationality since market and production depends on the mobility of services and goods.

 

Chocolate and Honey, the ground breaking millennium Ecosystem Assessment have found that in the last 50 years ,sixty percent of the world ecosystem services are being used unsustainably. Now I don’t want to sound like an alarmist to you but I would love to direct you to read more on this subject(if you care).Science is the ultimate answer to most of the questions you have raised; even though obscured by policies sometimes I think if you make science your starting point you will discover a lot (am not saying you haven't- just trying to be cautious ).