Sustainability can be simplified into these definitions:
- Ability to Sustain (Live Longer)
- Capacity to Endure (Last Longer)
- To Remain Diverse and Productive (Continue to progress)
These definitions all have something in common and that is to be able to stay in a good shape and also have the ability to produce or reproduce ways in order to stay in shape for longer periods of time. For Environmental Engineering it is the harmony among Environmental, Social and Economic demands; if these three work well together then there will be sustainability. The Earth is filled with sustainable things and the best example would be the Nature itself, nature has survived for years and still keep on living as time passes by and this is also similar for the other 2 factors though Social and Economic factors are man made.
Nature lasted for millions of years as proof of its sustainability
Humans through the years have developed a way in order to make use of this sustainability of nature and that is through the use of social and economic factors. These two factors came out of nature itself since nature provides raw materials (inputs) and humans just make use of it, the only problem is that society and economy are configured in different ways by humans in order to exploit the luscious gift of nature. Because of this, different problems are born like odd natural disasters, global warming and climate change and these problems have now pushed humans over the edge of technology's limitations just to find the right solution while maintaining the harmony of the environment with the society and its economy and thus because of all these things, sustainability of the three factors gets disrupted.
In order to further explain Sustainability, here is a video that would supplement this blog post:
(No Copyright infringement intended; all credits go to the uploader: RealEyesvideo)
How can I contribute to sustainability?
My thoughts about my contribution to sustainability begins from myself. Limiting large consumption of synthetic products, reducing, re-using and recycling are common ways to contribute to sustainability and all these things are useless without "DISCIPLINE". Discipline is my biggest contribution for sustainability because with discipline, I would be able to follow rules, laws regarding environmental conservation and hopefully produce green technology. Overall this is what I can do to prolong our sustainability, just DISCIPLINE.
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