Human Sustainability and Survival
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Earth, Skin & Eden (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/08/21
Human sustainability is the targeted goals and strategies to improve and preserve human life and its quality. I like the 21st-century. I like the quality of life. Quality of life will continue to rise as a matter of a trend line over decades and decades.
Human sustainability is about the interaction of human beings with the environment. It is integration with human infrastructure and the environment. Environmental sustainable development is the ability to keep present standards of living without the compromise of that standard of living for future generations.
There are other concepts of “needs” and “wants.” “Needs” are the essentials, according to the standards of the world’s poor. I think of some: food, water, shelter, familial stability, and societal stability with law. In addition, the population and other things such as technology and social organization can present limitations to the ability to achieve sustainable development for cooperatives, towns, cities, regions, and countries of the world.
One of the major drivers for international, national, regional, and local movements toward sustainability is the fact of climate change/global warming. Climate change is one of the most pressing immediate and long term issue at present. We have destroyed the natural beauty of the environment. This includes pollution and introduction of high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, which is a delicate admixture of various gases.
The earth is heating. It is warming at a speed faster than any other in human history since the beginning of the First Industrial Revolution. In short, this presents a concern for human survival. A species-wide possible catastrophe with concomitant extinction events throughout the world.
Some experts claim this is an new epoch. It is the Anthropocene Epoch because of the mass extinction events happening. The positive note to this is the possible catastrophe as a driver for unification of human endeavors regardless of nation, race, language, or age.
It is a peril that can unite or extinct us. It is a pivotal moment in human history and unprecedented for us. We’ve been around for 100,000 to 200,000 years, which makes this unique in a long period compared to recorded human history. Sustainability is a pressing issue, which can be addressed at multiple levels.
However, that should suffice for instruction to the reason for concern about climate change and sustainability in addition to the possible positive impacts for the future based on human decisions and consequences.
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