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Integration between Enviromental Conservation, Economic Development and Social Equity.


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"Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs." - World Commission of Enviroment and Development
For most of history, humanity just struggled to survive in an unforgiving environment.Only in the past century or so did we start to dominate nature and overrun the planet. Rather than defend ourselves against nature, we began to realize, we needed to defend nature against ourselves. Thus was born the environmental movement.
"Sustainable Development does not mean just conserving present resources for future generations but also reducing the excessive consumption of a minority so that resources are 'freed' to meet the basic needs of the rest of humanity within this generation." - Martin Khor

"Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle."
- Pope John Paul II

..."no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence" - Thomas Jefferson

SUSTAINABILITY...means leaving something for our children ...our children their Earth - Union of Concerned Scientist.


"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


"We live in a time in the history of nations when there is greater need for coordinated political action and responsability."

- Gro Bruntland in "Our Common Future"


"Humankind has inherited a 3.8 billion-year store of Natural Capital. At present rates of use and degradation, there will be little left by the end of the next century. This is not only a matter of aesthetic and morality, it is of the utmost practical concern to society and all people. Despite reams of press about the state of the Environment and rafts of laws attempting to prevent further loss, the stock of Natural Capital is plummeting and the vital life-giving services that flow from it are critical to our prosperity." -Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L.Hunter Lovins - "Natural Capitalism" (1999)

Prepared By:
Anselmo De Portu Hamawi and Martha I. Bravo-Colunga
Puerto Rican Planning Society
San Juan, Puerto Rico

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