SOC 2280 Chapter Notes -World-Systems Theory, Natural Environment, Economic Efficiency
10 Dec 2012
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Chapter 7: alternative futures: sustainability, inequality, and social change. Sustainable the change process or activity can be maintained without exhaustion or collapse. Development change and improvement can occur as dynamic process. It does not mean profligate use of the natural world without regard to the future, but neither does it imply a static condition. In human terms it means inventing ways of meeting human needs while preserving the capacity of the biophysical environment to do so. A sustainable society is one that meets the needs of the present without compromising the abilities of the future generations to meet their own needs . Historically the notion of sustainability seemed like a nice idea, but not very practical. Nor was it necessary to think of it much since human populations were smaller and economic technologies were less powerful. Now sustainability is not just a nice idea, it is imperative for the future of the world s people.
