Thursday, December 19, 2013

Environmental sustainability is a widely recognized concept with current environmental changes caused by global warming. Our generation is aware of the destruction people and corporations causing which is depleting natural resources such as ozone hole, rainforest destruction, and air and water pollution.  Honestly, sustainability is compared to environment sustainability. It considers each generation to live high quality life with peaceful positive mind. Due to the high standard of living caused by improvement in technology and science, our children will face modernized social issues such as inequality of wealth, poverty, and discrimination.

These social issues cannot be solved by one leader. Therefore, our generation should care more about these issues in order to leave a good example for our next generations. The United States is worlds leading country, thus small changes such as educating socially responsible investment could impact the whole wide world. The dilemma that modern society carries could be solved by creating more ethical investors. By avoiding businesses such as alcohol, gambling, tobacco, and weapons of mass destruction our society could be peaceful as inequity of wealth diminishes. Additionally, lots of fair trade made by ethical behavior would cause decrease in both poverty and inequity of wealth. As a consequence educating ethical behavior would cause discrimination since equal human right is a basic topic in ethics. It would be applied in reality that all human races are equal no matter what color and gender. 

Unfortunately, the social problems of poverty, inequity, and discrimination were there from the modern history. Between 1929 and 1939 a period know as the Great Depression unemployment in the United States hovered between 25 and 30 (Illinois). A solution to the problem is to continuously educate our children in topics of ethical investment there would be huge change made toward our world. This could result in maximizing both profit and social good would result with this educating process. Since humans are running the Earth right now, social sustainability stands first than environment sustainability. Therefore, lets work together as one to eliminate poverty, inequity, and discrimination.

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