Environment And Sustainability

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1. Introduction Environment is like a generator which makes the surroundings atmosphere and condition fit for the life form’s existence. The earth plays a role of mother who provides the materials the whole human beings require but demands for nothing in return. However, in the pace of fast development of human civilization and economy people usually forget to take care of the “earth mother” and realize their fault not to keep the development sustainable when they find out that the natural resource is running out and the surrounding atmosphere is under a worse and worse condition. A documentary film An Inconvenient Truth is a good example that identifies and makes people aware the connection between human activities and environment condition. Should the environmental protection be sacrificed for the economic development is a controversial question around the world and the issues regarding the balance between environmental protection and economic development have been being a global topic for decades. In many countries, the GDP is on the rise while its environment pollution is getting more serious. Actually, to pursue the economic growth blindly at the cost of environmental protection is not a wise strategy in a long-term point of view. But in too many people’s eyes, our planet is so big that individual or group activities have little impact on it even the truth is not so. Human being, as a creature, on one hand, should place the environment in the top priority as we are living depending on the resource from the homeland; on the other hand, as a man, a member of the society, to attach the important to the civilization and economic development is a responsibility of history. Yet, if we strain after economic growth regardless the environment our nature would revenge on us and our descendants. The nature resource is indeed limited and the speed of development is

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