Sustainability is a state or condition that can be maintained over an indefinite period of time. Sustainable Development, as defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission), is "the capacity to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Yes, I believe that we should try to achieve sustainability because with the unprecedented growth of the human population and technologies it …
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…very different ideas about what policies will make a community, company, nation, or the world more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. And ideas about how sustainability can be achieved are sure to continue to evolve. In summary, the concept of sustainability implies working toward a balance between the needs of all people, present and future, and the needs of the environment, in part because the environment is the source that provides for all human needs.