Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Impact Of Sustainability On The Environment - 1715 Words

‘Sustainability’, a word which everyone is coming across more often than ever before in today’s world. Yet, when it comes to defining and understanding this word, we observe various definitions and interpretations across people of various backgrounds. The question ‘What is sustainability?’ can be compared with the question ‘What is life?’. For some, life is a physical entity between birth and death, for others it the a non physical entity of way of living and so on. Similarly, Engineers, Architects, Doctors, Businessmen, Economists, Investors, Citizens, Politics, Environmentalists and people from various other domains have different interpretations and meanings of the word ‘Sustainability’. Not only does it depend on profession or area of†¦show more content†¦The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and ever since, it is evolving and changing its properties. Some of the changes observed by scientists are cyc lic (Ice age, Mass Extinction, etc.) and some unpredictable (Extinction of dinosaurs by asteroid, mutations, etc.). Throughout the evolution of earth from a heavenly mass of fire to today’s form, innumerable kinds of organisms have thrived on this planet, but none of them have ever influenced the planet as much as Humans are influencing, especially in last couple of centuries. Never has been such exploitation of natural resources and never was economy such important part of the society. Since industrial revolution, there has been rapid development in science and technology, communication, health, machineries, business models, consumption of energy, etc. The sense of security of life in terms of health, safety and luxury has been experienced by human beings like never before. This has led to exponential growth of population. Human population has thrived because of these factors in last 2 centuries. Before 200 years, global population was less than 1 billion, total it has cross ed mark of 7 billion and increasing at the rate of 250,000 new born babies will join world population daily(Ourworldindata.org). As a result, increase in demand of food, shelter, resources and energy. Some of the following statistics are listed

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