Your Questions About Green Living

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D. Sustainable development incorporates pollution as a benefit.

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Although a few points here are true/accurate (1, 4, and 6) only one describes sustainable development: number 1. Sustainability is defined as the “improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting eco-systems.”

In other words, sustainable development efforts should focus on us living without depleting our resources – in other words, only take what we need! We need to survive, but also need to account for our future generations to survive. In this case, man needs fish to survive, but if we take too much and do not allow the fish to reproduce, then they will disappear (become extinct), resulting in future generations having to move.

Number 4 is not sustainable development because water will always be around, but just in different forms and in different areas. We do need to focus on water management more heavily in certain areas because water will no longer be readily available in certain areas in the long-term if we keep up our current habits.

But again, this is not a development issue, but more of a management issue. Backing up in time, Arizona (a desert) is not the best place to develop. Americans made a mistake to develop these areas because they did not account for future generations or potential future issues/problems. But Americans could so they did, and now we have a mess on our hands, but that’s a different topic all together haha.

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No there isn’t. There is a great deal of discussion and argument. The question is unresolved. First do you intend the concept within social engineering or microeconomics?

There is insufficient evidence that global climate change is a result of human behavior. Currently, China is testing the boundaries of development. Between the geological impact of the three gorges dam, which changed the balance of the earth ever so slightly, mostly in China, and the excessive pollution they are creating which causes additional medical costs and loss of productivity, there is a link between human behavior and health issues. China doesn’t believe in sustainable development, they have the throttle to the floorboards.

But there is no indisputable evidence of the impact of man’s actions on the global climate change. Global climate change is cyclical, and is not uniform.

Sustainable development is only a valid option when an individual community elects to pursue this path, regardless of whether it is social engineering or microeconomics.

These make for interesting discussions, but there is no firm evidence which incontrovertibly suggests a provable hypothesis.

Good luck, I have no idea who would have assigned this in any class. It would be a difficult choice for a master’s thesis or a doctoral dissertation.

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This should answer your question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCngWelRTk

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The Akosombo Dam is a hydroelectric dam in southeastern Ghana. The dam created the largest man-made lake, known as Lake Volta. The dam provides electricity to Ghana and surrounding West African countries.

The dam is 660 meters wide and 114 meters high. It was built between 1961 and 1965. In periods of drought, the water in Lake Volta is rationed and less electricity is generated. During these times, cities in Ghana are subjected to rolling blackouts to lessen their consumption of electricity. Ghana’s Volta River Authority has contracts with neighbouring countries for electricity. These contracts are given higher priority than the customers in Ghana’s own cities. Though Kaiser Aluminum is a major user, and the dam was constructed in part for the smelting of local bauxite, the economics have turned out such that raw materials have to be imported to keep the industry running.