Global sustainbility
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global_sustainbilitypp.pptxGlobal sustainability
By: Abdullah Almuayli
Presentation
Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the environment.
The contaminants leads to adverse environmental impacts.
Pollution leads to increased scarcity of resources.
The end result is unsustainable resource use and development.
Pollution can be defined as the introduction of foreign materials to the environment leading to adverse effects to the existing environment. When pollution happens, the available resources are not usually safe for human consumption and cannot be used for development. As a result, resource imbalance strikes leading to unsustainable global resources use.
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Deforestation
Deforestation is the permanent cutting down of trees to make the land available for other uses like settlement and agriculture.
Deforestation affects the carbon and hydrological cycle.
This leads to an increase in the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
This then leads to unsustainable resource use and availability affecting global sustainability.
The issue of deforestation has received a lot of concerns lately. Deforestation is caused by continuous cutting down of tress to make the land available for other uses without replacing them. when trees are cut, the carbon as well as the water cycles are affected. These may lead to global warming and climate change thus affecting the availability of some resources globally. The result of this is unsustainable resource use that then leads to global unsustainability.
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Migration
Migration is the movement of people from one region to the other.
When people move from one region to the other, there is a similar transfer of resource demand from one region to the other.
If this happens, the result is always a creation of an imbalance in resource availability in these regions.
The end result is unsustainable resource utilization all over the world.
Migration can be termed as the movement of people from one point to the other as a result of both pull and push factors. When people move, they usually transfer their demand for resources thus leading to unstable resource use and utilization. As this happens, there always results an unsustainable resource use globally that ultimately affects development in one region or the other in a number of ways.
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References
Backhaus, G. (2009). Automobility: Global Warming as Symptomatology. Sustainability, 1(2), 187-208. doi:10.3390/su1020187
Iai, S., Ikkatai, S., & Sawa, T. (2011). Achieving global sustainability: Policy recommendations. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.
