Sunday 29 April 2012

Reflections on Unsustainable Development and Ways to become more Sustainable Development


Nowadays, as we know, the earth becomes warm and warm day by day due to the melting of ice-mountains, emitting of Greenhouse gases, pollutions in air and water and others. Why did they occur? It is all because we use the energy and develop the new things without thinking that whether it is sustainable or unsustainable for the environment. The effects will not only cause on the environment and the present, it will also cause to our next generations. It can be made our next generations not able to continue living any more. Scientists call it, ELF: Environment, Local people and Future.
Today, people invite things without thinking. For example, they invite the vehicles in order to improve their transportation. But for the energy to force them to move, people depend on oil. And now the problem is people over depend on oil leaving in an environment that is full with air pollutions and the scarce of oil resources. And another example is that paper. Nowadays paper plays a huge role in our daily lives. They can be a thing that transports information between us and notes for study and others. I think everyone knows paper is made from trees. So there will have expenses in trees as long as we use paper. For this issue, now the most popular way is reforestation: if u cut one tree then plants a new tree in that place.
 I don’t mean that people should stop inviting new things but I want to say that we should invite things that are not only useful for human beings but also useful for the ELF. So people first should know how to develop sustainably. Solar power, wind power, water power and wave power and any other power that can renewable can be the best alternatives to produce energy for machines and prevent the environment. They don’t cause any pollution or emit harmful objects that can harm the environment. So, if the things are developed using the above energy, they can classify as sustainable development.
                In conclusion, development is something that is essential for the survival of human beings. So as long as people know how to keep development sustainable, and understand how to apply it in the developing progress, then development is not something that is bad, but it is something that will help human to keep on evolving. And it will also have long term benefit on ELF and the next generation can also living in a happy condition.