Chapter 1 reading

 

Marisol Gameros Lopez

28 September 2016

Freshman Seminar

Dr. Wallace

Chapter 1

Section 1
Sustainable development is the understanding of  both the world and the method of solving global problems. The number of people inhibiting the planet is rapidly increasing and each seems to be seeking higher levels of improvement than what they have already obtained. Sustainable development consists of three systems: world economy, global society, and the Earth's physical environment. In order to answer the many questions concerning the collision of the three systems, sustainable development creates and gives access to goal sets that the world should try to reach. A history of maximum sustainable yield of fish was given as an example to enforce the importance of resource conservation for sustainability. Sustainable development goals will be discussed in a framework of social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and economic development.
Section 2
Sustainable development is both an ethical and scientific system. The economy works in a similar system as the body in the way that each interactive group builds up to form one large being. Emergent properties of these systems create "more than the sum of" parts of the system. It takes more than few simple ideas and goals to maintain sustainability, it results from functional plans and ideas that were thought up for specific cases so that it will work effectively.
Section 3
Technology has brought upon many changes in the way we go about planning sustainable development goals and create possible solutions to improve the world globally. Although they have helped us grow as a civilization, these advances have caused great problems for the Earth as well. For example, coal was used for many industrial developments and had a positive effect of society but created a lot of pollution and damaged both the air and the earth. Many of the technological advances created in the world today ted to be for governmental associations, such as for military use, and have been successfully created due to government support.
Section 4
Sustainable development as a normative approach shows us what a good society should look like. It would appear to be a rich society of what we amount to be nut the unbalanced total would be too unevenly dispersed. Poverty, inequality, social mobility, discrimination and cohesion are five main concerns of the distribution of our economic well-being. Social inclusion is what we, as a society, aim for. Fundamental questions are formed and then connected to economy, society, environment, and governance so to provide support for technological advances.
Section 5
People believe that trade-off are necessary for the economical pursuit of economical, social, and environmental goals, so to reach the desired level of economical growth. Growth and environmental choices are often used alongside efficiency and equality terms. The economical balance refers to not being able to improve someone's financial well-being without lowering another's.