Making Our World A Better Place
October 14, 2009 — sekim13
The millennium development goals are:
- Eradicating poverty and hunger
- Achieving universal primary education
- Promoting gender equality
- Reducing child mortality
- Improving maternal health
- Combating disease
- Ensuring environmental sustainability
- Developing a global partnership
In this blog post, I will be focusing on ensuring enviromental sustainability. Ensuring enviromental sustainability basically means that we must use our resources wisely in order to achieve sustainable development. Poor people living in LEDC’s have mostly subsistence economies, and are the ones that are most affected by environmental degradation and natural disasters. MEDC’s especially have got to start using their resources wisely. Even though the countries make enviromental laws, big TNC’s always seem to somehow find ways around those rules. On top of that, nowadays, the TNC’s are going to LEDC’s where there is much fewer enviromental laws and more cheap labor. Now, they are also destroying the land and using up all the natural resources of other countries as well.
Some ways to try and achieve enviromental sustainability is for the governments all over the world, including LEDC’s to create very effective and good enviromental laws. Also, they should build more nature preserves and parks. Governments should try and switch more to alternative energy sources and not rely so much on only sources such as oil, gas, etc.
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October 16, 2009 at 2:07 pm
hey))
I agree with the idea that TNCs go to LEDCs all the time to invest and also using all the resources.
However, How can you personally do to help to achieve sustainable development?