How does sustainable development endure high standard of living and increase in productivity?

Question

Can someone also please explain how sustainable development makes sure that the objectives of removal of poverty, inequality and illiteracy are achieved?

Answer 1

I think sustainable development enduring high standard of living and increase productivity easily apply and feasible to rich resources country, like Canada. For instance, they can log the whole mountain of woods and replant it. Many years later, the whole mountain goes green again. Salmon hacting by manual spawning can increase its productivity is common in Canada. They grow wheats and mustard a lot there, too. People can buy cheaper draft beer and more hotdogs go with mustard. In contrary, Hong Kong is not a viable city to provide sustainable development for its six million plus citizens because it's not a natural resources base city, and government personnel has taken too much money out of the system and spend lavishingly too much for themselves. I think a city or country must have good leaders to provide sustainable development endure high standard of living and increase productivity. Hong Kong is just a city become the people don't give a damn to each other. The inflation goes up rapidly and the government just by selling the lands at extra high prices and investing the monies into the foreign currency exchanges and stock markets. Hong Kong is notoriously known as top five most expensive and polluted city in this world. Hong Kong has the highest poor and rich gap in this world with gini coefficient of 0.5333 and 0.3 is the norm. How to remove the poverty in Hong Kong, for instance, Hong Kong government should cut the overpaid civil servants salaries, lower the property values, keep the Heng Seng index down to less than 10000 point. Then Hong Kong will become a cheaper city to live. Educational subsidary has provided free education up to grade 9 now. In most countries, free education is up to grade 12 or completion of secondary school .

Answer 2

The fact that the development is sustainable means that it can be maintained over a long time and any gains the development achieves can be made more or less permanent. Whether the development actually will be maintained and the gains actually kept is another question altogether; "can be" is a lot different from "will be."

By definition, nonsustainable development cannot be maintained over the long term. At best, such development would be suitable only as an initial stage to be replaced by something more sustainable to maintain any initial gains.

Answer 3

Quick sarcastic answer - they only think they do.

Long sarcastic answer - starving, illiterates are easier to steal from (via bribery and other corruption if kick backs, etc., technically are not bribes).

Name a country that got a better standard of living - more than how every country got better. (Real wages, adjusted for inflation increased in the "industrialized" world. Anybody out strip that. If starting at a lower point it should be possible. If using a defeated Axis power use 1938 as the base, not 1944.:) ) Oh, you might have two in China and India.

Both had top-down economies (China communist, India socialist) that had criminal like penalties for back sliding. (Just one cultural [not strictly economic] instance for India - Sati [if I spelled it right], the self immolation of a wife at her husband's funeral, is out lawed. I say not strictly, because greater number of consumers and possible workers, etc.)

If you have not noticed, China executed the guys responsible for the tainting of their "national brand." Increasing profits in the short term and not valuing the quality of life of your customers is back sliding.

Oh, those are countries that did it themselves by addressing government corruption first.

Answer 4

Strong businesses coexist with high standards of living. This is a fact, to deny it would be like denying most major historical events of the 20th century.

Answer 5

For any development of any branch (or level) of society to become sustainable there must be answers for all those criteria you've named

Answer 6

If they did, would we have poverty?