Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs)

The race of development, modernisation, industrialization, and overall infrastructure development is based on, to improve the living condition of society. Everyone knows that development and industrialization that we achieved have come at a very heavy price i.e. at the price of environmental degradation. The race to become number one or in the race of becoming a developed nation. We have lost our valuable natural resources that nature gifted to humanity.

Now we are at the verge of devastation and annihilation. However, the progress India has achieved so far in industrialization paid a very heavy price for it. Now, the time has come up to look towards the goals of sustainable development and follow the sustainable and holistic path so that we could save the existing resources.

As defined by the (UNCED) United Nations Conference on Environment and Development," Development that meets the need of present generation without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs". By the definition, one can clearly understand that the environment which our forefathers left for us, we have to pass it as it is to our future generation, it also need to guide them that use it wisely and judiciously and pass it to next generation and so on. Earlier, I had also mentioned in my articles that environment is like our mother, we have to keep it calmly and use it for just cause not for unjust. Use it in such a way that it can be rechargeable. 

       Since, the aim of sustainable development to decrease the abject poverty of the poor by providing them lasting and secure livelihood that minimise resource depletion, environmental degradation, cultural disruption and social instability. Development that meets the basic needs, particularly for poor majority, for employment, food, energy, water, housing, agriculture, etc. and services to meet these needs.

Our environment consists of both biotic (i.e, living elements like birds, animals, forests, etc.) and abiotic ( i.e, air, water land, rocks, etc). It can absorb the pollution and degradation at a particular level and also regenerate the exploited natural resources but if human beings exploit it beyond its cleaning and regenerative capacity then it becomes disastrous for human life.

 Now the question arises,: Why the human beings started exploiting environment beyond its cleaning capacity? What was the need for exploiting our most valuable natural resources? The answer to all these questions lies in simple word i.e, population and poverty. Earlier, the population of our country was not reached at that extent, that creates such a devastating problem of environmental degradation. Second thing, peoples of earlier time lives simple and austere life. They were living, by using the natural resources fulfilled their basic needs, but never exploited it for their personal desire. As time passes, the industrialization era exploited the environment at such level that it cannot be rejuvenated. Now only we can preserve it, whatever is left by using sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Economic development and environmental development can only be achieved by using sustainable development. There are different strategies by which we can improve the lives of poor one like using non-conventional sources of energy, by using LPG and gobar gas in rural areas, by using CNG in urban areas, by using wind power, where the speed of the wind is usually high. One important thing as government of India is focusing on Solar Power (energy), these are the key areas and ways of sustainable development.