Why is environmental protection a watershed between sustainable development and traditional development?

This article is from: Baidu Knowledge Daily

Sustainable development believes that development and environmental protection are interconnected and constitute an organic whole. Sustainable development attaches great importance to environmental protection as one of the most basic purposes that it actively pursues to realize, and environmental protection is the watershed and touchstone that distinguishes sustainable development from traditional development. Sustainable development emphasizes development, which is the common and universal right of mankind. Both developed and developing countries should enjoy the equal and inalienable right to development, which is even more important for developing countries. The facts show that developing countries are under the double pressure of poverty and ecological degradation, with poverty leading to ecological degradation and ecological degradation exacerbating poverty. Therefore, sustainable development is the first priority for developing countries, and only development can provide the necessary technology and capital to solve the problem of disparity between the rich and the poor, the population explosion and the ecological crisis, and ultimately move towards modernization and civilization.

Environmental protection and sustainable development are closely linked. Sustainable development takes environmental protection as an important element in realizing development, because environmental protection not only creates many direct or indirect economic benefits for development, but also protects development and provides suitable environment and resources for development; sustainable development takes environmental protection as one of the objective standards for measuring the quality, level and degree of development, because modern development and reality rely more and more on the environment and resources to support. Resources support, people do not have a full understanding of sustainable development, with the traditional development, the environment and resources are in sharp decline, can provide support for the development of more and more limited, the more high-speed development, the more important the environment and resources; environmental protection can ensure the realization of the ultimate goal of sustainable development, because modern development has long been not only full of material and spiritual consumption, and at the same time put the construction of a comfortable, safe, clean and beautiful environment as an objective criterion of development quality. At the same time, it takes the construction of a comfortable, safe, clean and beautiful environment as an important goal to be realized by making unremitting efforts. Sustainable development recognizes that, in terms of environmental protection, everyone has a legitimate right to the environment. Environmental rights and obligations are relative, a right to others and an obligation to oneself, and people's environmental rights and obligations are equal and unified.

This right should be respected and maintained by others. Sustainable development requires people to give up the traditional mode of production and consumption. It is to change the traditional mode of development in a timely and resolute manner - that is, to first reduce and then eliminate the mode of production and consumption that cannot make development sustainable. On the one hand, it requires people to produce as little input and as much output as possible; on the other hand, it requires people to utilize as much as possible and emit as little as possible when consuming. Therefore, we must correct the past kind of purely rely on enhanced input, increase consumption to achieve development and to sacrifice the environment to increase the output of the wrong practices, so that the development of less dependence on limited resources, more and more with the environmental capacity of organic coordination.

Sustainable development requires accelerating the development and popularization of new environmental protection technology to solve the environmental crisis, change the traditional mode of production, and consumption, the fundamental way out in the development of science and technology. Only the massive use of advanced science and technology can make the unit production of energy consumption, material consumption decreased significantly, in order to realize the development model of less input, more output, reduce the dependence on resources, energy, reduce the pollution load on the environment.

Sustainable development also requires a general increase in people's environmental awareness. The implementation of sustainable development is the premise that people must change the traditional attitude towards nature - that is, from a utilitarian point of view, for my use, as long as it is necessary for human beings, can be developed and used at will. And should set up a new concept of modern civilization, that is, with the ecological point of view to re-adjust the relationship between man and nature, the human race is only as an ordinary member of the family of nature, so as to truly establish a harmonious relationship between man and nature of the brand new concept, which relies on an individual can not, a few people can not, and only to make it become the public's conscious behavior, so that the environmental education to make it suitable for sustainable development.