What is the essence of sustainable development?

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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

In other words, we have to live our lives (using water, electricity, coal, oil, fossil fuel, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases) in such a way that our children and our grandchildren and all the generations coming after them will also have the same chance of living a sustainable life.

It follows then, that we have to make serious changes to our lifestyle in the very near future, or there will be a very unhappy future for our children and grandchildren. We cannot keep going the way we are.

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