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Director Projects at Cleaner Production Institute Lahore Pakistan

We mostly MISUNDERSTAND SUStainability???????? We mostly misunderstand sustainability and everyone perceives it in his own way. It is simple ?????? ‘Sustainability simply means of taking measures to protect natural resources’ In 1987, the United Nations Brundtland Commission defined sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” When we analyze our needs, these are mostly: Water, air, land, food (animals/plants), home, health, money, transport, raw materials (plants/minerals/metals), energy (fuels), garments/shoes, transport, appliances, machines, human beings. From above it is clear that needs are actually the natural resources, which are either available in the nature as such or we convert them to the products for our use. When we protect natural resources, we don’t damage them and don’t destroy them (we use them optimally). In case of human beings (human being are also part of the natural resources), protection means the social protection (social welfare). When we protect resources, actually we take care of ‘Environment’, when we protect human beings, we take care of ‘Social’, and ‘Economic’ aspects of human beings, so we fulfill all the three pillars of sustainability.        

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