2. The Brundtland Commission’s brief
definition of sustainable development as
the
“ability to make development sustainable—
to ensure that it meets the needs
of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their
own needs”.
Based from
3. World Commission on Environment
and Development was initiated by the General
Assembly of the United Nations in 1982, and
its report, Our Common Future, was published
in 1987.7 It was chaired by then–Prime
Minister of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland,
thus earning the name the “Brundtland
Commission.”
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7. An environmentally sustainable society
satisfies the basic needs of its people without
depleting or degrading its natural resources
and thereby preventing current and future
generations of humans from meeting their
basic needs.
8. Living sustainably means living off the
natural income replenished by soils, plants,
air and water and not depleting the natural
capital that supplies this income.
Do not kill the goose that lays the golden egg
or protect your capital.
9. The living planet report by WWF and other
orgs. Mentioned that between 1970 and 1999
we lost 1/3rd of our natural capital.
Due to exponential growth and use of earth’s
natural resources.
10. Encourages environmentally sustainable
forms of economic growth that meet the
basic needs of the current generations of
humans and other species without preventing
generations of humans and other species
from meeting their basic needs.
Discourages environmentally harmful and
unsustainable forms of economic growth.
11. Is the economic component of
environmentally sustainable societies.
12. Planetary management view
Beliefs
1. We are the planet’s most important species, and we
are apart from and in charge of the rest of nature.
2. The earth has unlimited supply of resources for use
by us through science and technology.
3. Economic growth increases human well-being and
the potential for economic growth is essentially
limitless.
4. Our success depends on how well we can
understand, control and manage the earth’s life-
support systems for our benefit.
13. Environmental wisdom worldview
Beliefs
1. We are part of nature and nature does not exist for us.
2. The earth’s resources are limited, should not be wasted,
and should be used efficiently and sustainably for us and
other species.
3. Some forms of technology and economic growth are
environmentally beneficial and should be encouraged but
some are harmful and should be discouraged.
4. Our success depends on learning how the earth sustains
itself and adapts to ever-changing environmental
conditions and integrating such scientific lessons from
nature into ways we think and act.
14. 1. Waste disposal to waste prevention and
reduction.
2. Pollution clean-up to pollution prevention.
3. Protecting species to protecting places where
they live.
4. Environmental degradation to environmental
restoration.
5. Increased resource use to more efficient
resource use.
6. Population growth to population stabilization.
