The main topic for the Students BELAMUN Conference in March is Sustainable Development. What does that mean? How do you understand that? Let's think it over.
Sustainable development is an essential requirement of our time. This notion means the development that meets the needs of the present, but without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their needs. In other words, humanity must learn to "live within our means," to use natural resources without undermining them, invest money, figuratively speaking, in "insurance" - to fund programs aimed at preventing the catastrophic consequences of our own activities. A sustainable development of society provide for a rational combination of trends in the development of all spheres of human activity - social, economic and environmental, taking into account their long-term impact. It is based on social intelligence. The unity of culture, science, education and public awareness means the ability of effective governance in the future.
Social instability is combined with special conditions of the historical development of each country, its traditions and mentality. For most people, the instability of society is taken primarily as an absolute ambiguity of the situation and, consequently, the impossibility to predict the coming evens of his fate, career, elementary decisions on specific issues.
The current situation in the economy has difficulties due to the consequences of the global economic crisis. There is a necessity to accept the acceleration of energy resources costs, as well as overproduction of goods in the markets and the problems of domestic products sales in other countries. At present, the success of economic development is evaluated mainly by the money supply it brings. However, the accounting system of national wealth must also take into account the full cost of environmental degradation.
The researchers concluded that a significant part of our work for the progress destroys the ecological balance. It became obvious that we can’t afford using the energy, forest, land, plant and animal resources, to contain urban growth and to produce industrial products like we had done it before. The implementation of sustainable development requires new forms of financial cooperation and new ways of financing projects. Individuals, banks, companies and governments should invest more rationally, thinking not only about short-term profits, but also about positive and sustainable results in the field of environmental protection in the future. Environmental protection is not just a matter of professionals. Probably there is no man who would not be connected with nature. Therefore, the responsibility for its condition for present and future generations has not only those who exploit natural resources, but we all, citizens of the Earth. Thus, the protection of nature is a center in which we must focus all our efforts, as individuals, citizens and inhabitants of the Earth.
Thus, the UN needs a more effective coordination at the global scale, individual countries and regions to solve such urgent issues as the prevention of war, the fight against the devastation, hunger, epidemics, child mortality and others. It is necessary to develop and implement science-based international standards, new clean technologies, programs for prevention of approach to the threshold of irreversible change. To cope with environmental problems is very difficult without more effective international education system, where a world in which we live would be the subject of education. The system of research and training should carry out the functions of education, upbringing, training and retraining of personnel of all possible environmental levels. The coming environmental catastrophe must be prevented - and this is a common issue of all people in the world. We must revive the towns and villages, which appeared in a black list of Ecology. Only a new environmental awareness of nature can save humanity from extinction, restore the blue sky, green meadows and woods, to return a forgotten freshness of our cities.
Olga Likhachiova
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