Historically, city and community planners lacked the vision and understanding that would lead to environmentally friendly and sustainable conditions, allowing us to live in harmony with nature. ... With roads and highways stretching farther and farther from the city, suburbanites can now live at greater distances from the cities requiring a need for increased fossil fuel production. ...
Carson stressed the need to respect the ecosystem in which we live, in order to protect human health as well as the environment (Nations, 2011). ... Likewise, progress was previously linked to only life style betterment of human or his political goals. ...
The Vision of a Sustainable Society The Rio Conference on the Environment (1992) will live on in mankind's history as the occasion which put an end to obsession with economic development. ... In reality, what happened was that misconceptions were abandoned and development resumed its true meaning and moral content, which does not consist in the consumption of material goods but in improving education and health, securing a good natural environment, establishing harmonious coexistence between people in a just and peaceful world, and encouraging the stable joint development of civilisati...
