ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

摘要

The quality of our environment is a matter of eminent concern for all of us, especially for future generations. It is increasingly felt that the time has come for some drastic changes in the way our environment is protected from pollution, i.e., how to maintain a high diversity of life, at local and global levels, and how to prevent the exhaustion of resources. Our society urgently needs a sustainable lifestyle, which also adheres to the environmental protection technologies adopted . This implies a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to current global problems, such as overpopulation, malnutrition, desertification, water quality deterioration, and so on. From the ecological point of view, one knows that uncontrolled exponential growth should be prevented in an ecosystem if the population wants to colonise that ecosystem in a sustainable way. Harmony and balance are needed around the carrier capacity of an ecosystem, and one can question if sustainability and growth can really co-exist. Sustainability and exponential growth certainly cannot. With respect to human society this not only applies to the prevention of the exhaustion of resources, but also to social justice; that is, the prevention of extreme prosperity of a few at the expense of hopeless poverty of the vast majority.