Sustainable Development: A Ray of Hope to Surmount Climate Change

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We human-beings are just a minute fringe of broad spectrum ‘Life’ on the Earth. There are around 90-100 million living species surviving on earth and we are just one of them. Life on earth is dependent on its specific ecological balance. Earth is the rarest place in the space which contains balance of all the contents required for existence of life.
Unfortunately or fortunately Mother-Nature has graced only us with ‘knowledge’ that makes us equipped to utilize the Earth’s natural resources. With rapid growth of human population, rate of utilization of natural resources also increased and on other hand there is raise in living standards. Today per-person energy consumption is much higher then it used to be few decades earlier. Hence, now the ‘reasonable utilization” of natural resources has turned into ‘unreasonable, uncontrolled exploitation’ of natural resource.
We are cutting forests, polluting water, land and air, burning fossil fuel, which is resulting change in earth’s natural ecological balance. Consequence; the Climate change, with unplanned and unreasonable exploitation of natural recourses we have inflicted irreparable damaged to the delicate planetary ecology. We must take concrete measures to control the present situation.
The only alternative left with us is ‘sustainable development’ i.e. development but not at cost of future generations. Sustainable development is known since from 1972 the Stockholm declaration, further it was discussed in 1992 in Rio conference as - “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” There are three main principles of Sustainable development:i.Inter-Generational Equity
ii.The Precautionary Principle iii.Polluter Pays Principle ‘Sustainable development’ will not heal all the damage, but it's a method of controlling the expansion of damage to future generations. Immediate implementation must be initiated otherwise it would be too late.

Stream: Ecosystemic Impacts

Paper: Sustainable Development

I am a 4th Law student pursuing my 5 year integrated B.Sc. LLB (Hons.) Degree course form Gujarat National Law University India. I am interested in management and will do MBA after finishing my degree.

Authored an article ‘Raising International concern towards Ozone layer Depletion ‘.Been a member of editorial board .Involved in doing Research assignments in center for innovation incubation and entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmadabad.