In today’s world, everyone wants to develop
whether it’s financially, physically, mentally or in anyway possible. Life is
growing so fast that people are hardly getting time to even think about what
are the consequences of the steps which they are taking for the country’s
development. There are many sides of one phase and most of the times, we fail
in understanding the importance or the significance of one scenario over the
other. We as a citizen keep on shouting for the development of the country and
at the same time we pressurise the government too for doing the development for
us but have we ever asked the question to ourselves about what is the real
development stands for or what is the consequence of the development if the
steps for it has not been taken in keeping the future generation in mind.
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The definition
of real development means the development which is taken in order to not just facilitate
the today’s generation but also to provide the better future to our next
generation. This helps to enhance the beauty of sustainable development by
promoting it in every way possible.
The
topic of this article is about the question that whether it’s the need to
redefine the meaning of sustainable development. So of course, the answer from
any responsible individual to this question will be yes, it’s needed. But one
has to even think that why it’s needed to redefine the meaning of development,
whether the existed meaning is not sufficient or application or valid for this present
generation then the answer is yes, it’s not applicable. The old meaning of
development what we had is not so beneficial when it comes to actually
practising in today’s world. This can be better understood by the example
given. In older days, our ancestors never used to think about the effects
caused by burning the fuels, by discharging the wastes in the water bodies,
etc. Their focus was just concentrated on the development. But now our concern
is not just about the development of today’s but even the problems which our
future generation may get due to our bad deeds. The development is not all of
constructive, it even has the adverse effects on the environment. Due to the
exploit of the environment by either using the heritage or by damaging the trees
or deforestation and using the animal’s fur or skin and all these sorts of
things which contribute in harming the nature. These things should also be
taken in concern in order to develop from all the aspects. The concern of the
United States is also allocated majorly on this topic of sustainable
development. Today is the world of competition and in this competitive world,
everyone wants to develop but the development should be sustainable and positive
from all the aspects. Development means to open up the new factories,
transport, construction and many more. These things which are the key features
to define the meaning of development is not sufficient to elaborate the need to
even control the side effects caused by these things.
Development is not the short-term agenda
instead it’s the long-term agenda which has the long-term effect on everything,
whether it’s the nature, the country, the pollution measuring index and many
more things. These criteria should also be kept in mind in order to promote the
development which not only concentrate on the top layers of the definition of
development but also on the deeper layers of the definition of the development.
If our focus will be on just the burning of fuels, increasing the number of
automobiles, increasing the number of factories then one has to even think
about the consequences caused by it as this nature is our mother and it’s our
prime responsibility to take care of our mother in the best way possible. The
pollution is getting increased day by day and we can see the effect of it on
the weather and the health of the citizens of our country. The new born babies
are getting so many default diseases right from the birth, these all are
happening as a result of the deeds which we are doing towards the country in
the name of development. When the people call that they want the development
then it means that they want the better life style but if these all are the
things which we are doing for becoming develop then it’s sorry to say but it’s
really good to still remain as the developing nation ,at least it will not
affect the health and heritage of our nation. This thing can be better understood
by seeing the things from the other perspective. Just imagine one has to take
up the decision then he should take up that in order to keep the pros and cons
of that decision in mind. If the pros are more than the cons then he should
definitely take the decision but if the cons are more than the pros then he
should not take that decision at any cost. This situation is similar to the
scenario created in front of us regarding the development. Hence, it’s very
much needed to redefine the definition of development. The development which
will just cause the adverse effects on everything can’t be the right way to
approach the real meaning of the development. So, it’s the high time for us to develop
sustainably. There are many resources present in the nature and it can be
categorised in many ways but let’s take up two categories of the natural
resources which are nothing but the renewable and non-renewable resources. The
renewable resources are those which can be replenished over the time and the non-renewable
resources are those which can’t be replenished and take a long period of time
for its manufacture. Many of the resources are non renewable resources and
hence it’s needed to utilize the resources in the proper manner.
The development is the important key to
find out whether the economy of the country is growing well or not, this may
contain the facts like whether that country has malls, infrastructures,
construction sites, many companies, factories, etc. Well the people think that
these things are the constructive phases of the economy and how can one say
that these are the reasons of our nature to be in endangered!? But it’s really needed
to understand that these things which seems good measures from outside or from
the economy point of view also have adverse affects. One can’t say that the
benefits of development is just concise to its positive effects and not the
negative ones. The development has led the world to grow but one surely doesn’t
want to grow in the environment which is polluted or which don’t have the
beauty of nature. The finest example in front of our eyes which shows that just
the development is not applicable instead one should expand the thinking beyond
the scope of the development and make the earth a better place to live in and
this example is shown by the capital of our country Delhi. We all know and have
seen too that the pollution index of Delhi and Delhi NCR has got so high. People
of Delhi are suffering from the air borne diseases like asthma, lung cancer,
all sort of respiratory problems and many more. They are even forced to leave
that place and to settle somewhere else in the country. Have we ever thought
that why this situation has got emerged in our nation? No, we didn’t think
about this. Actually, we never have paid attention to these sorts of things.
The Delhi which is the metropolitan city, has all the livelihood facilities and
services, inspire of all these people there are forced to leave that place. Delhi
surely has the term called 'development' in it but it doesn’t
have that environment which can make the life possible in its place.
Now the concerning question in front of we
all is if we will run behind the development then we have to also ensure that
the development is not causing any ill effects on the society and nature
otherwise the places which will have so many scope to get the feel of
urbanization will not have the single population who will be living in that
place. The time is not that far when the whole country will have the disastrous
situation like Delhi so we have to think before the thing goes out of our hand.
We as a responsible citizen of the country have to think about the measures
through which we can control the side effects of development and we have to
even ensure that the nation should lead towards the ‘sustainable development.’
‘Development should not lead the
settlement with the nature instead it should promote the betterment of the
nature as well as the nation.’
By,
Aakriti Sharma
BMSCW
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