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Pragmatic Approach to Sustainability
WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY, ANYWAY?
Leaders have been trying to define sustainability for centuries.
Roosevelt, in 1916, preached that our "duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of the unborn generations."
Many years later in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower mirrored those sentiments in his farewell address saying,"As we peer into society's future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow."
Hundreds of different definitions
Definitions of “sustainability” abound, but in its simplest terms refers to the most efficient use of resources, at lowest cost, while demonstrating social responsibility and protecting the environment.
One of the most important definitions created in recent times about the overall impact of sustainability and climate change came from The Brundtland Report. This definition, from the World Commission on Environmental Development in 1987, found that sustainability basically involves "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
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