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On Contemporary Characteristic Of Sustainable Development

Posted on:2011-11-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360305456893Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Since the industrial revolution, due to scientific and technological progress, human's means of transformation of nature increased greatly and rich. Through science and technology, the poverty of early human society stimulated human beings to pursue the economic growth and the growth of material wealth to meet the growing desires of human. Since the Renaissance, as the liberation of humanity, the demand for materials increased continuously, and the previous fear of nature had turned into the worship of human ourselves: human is the center of the nature and man is master of the nature, while the nature becomes the purpose of humanity. This arrogance and willful actions speed up the transformation and the plunder of nature by the science and technology. Along with the economic growth and abundant materials, the ecological and social problems appear and lead to the fact that the severe ecological crisis and survival crisis threaten the living of human brings. Early ecological ethicists and environmentalists aware of the existence dilemma and the ecological predicament for humanity, through a series of environmental initiatives to awaken human's awareness of ecology. With these environmental actions in depth to the world, all countries and all international organizations have actions to concern the natural environment and living environment of human beings. Sustainable development becomes a global consensus of mankind in our view, and it has gradually become a mainstream awareness as the basis of the development of all countries. All the countries in the world have considered the sustainable development as the agenda and emphasize the development process will produce a variety of ecological and social problems. This development mode is a kind of the development which makes human beings, nature and society interacting and harmonious. This development model not only has special significance for contemporary people, but also benefits for future generations the future development with profound impact.The idea of this essay locates on the development of science and technology, particular in the impact of scientific and technological progress on human and society after the industrial revolution. The economic growth and material wealth satisfy the requirements of human, however, the satisfaction of selfish for human beings establish on the price of exploiting the natural environment and the irrational use of resources and development, which lead to the deterioration of the natural environment and living environment. Mankind is facing with the serious ecological and survival crises. Human beings should have to think and reflect what be brought to the human society because of this development model, therefore, some of the ecological ethics scholars and environmentalists begin to concern about the crises of living and survival ecological environment of human. Rachel. The publishing of Rachel Carson's book the Silent Spring started a community-wide debate immediately, which aroused people's concerned about the ecological crisis. This awareness had been widely accepted and been regarded as the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Subsequently, the world's governments and international organizations began to form a series of meetings and reports to protect the global environment and concerned about the sense of human existence. Finally, Environment and Development Commission of the United Nations submitted a report entitled "Our Common Future "to the United Nations. In this report, they claimed the definition of sustainable development clearly. The sustainable development ideas has recognized and accepted by the people of the world's and the governments all over the world gradually. It can be seen that the idea of sustainable development has been widely accepted.The introduction of the concept of sustainable development will be given some ecological characteristics, fair features and the humanity characteristics and some of the new historical characters. These features provide us a kind of theoretical and practical support for our better in-depth understanding of sustainable development in the new historical period.The introduction and plasticizing of sustainable development theory is to better serve our country's establishment of socialist modernization. The 16 third Plenary Session raise the view of scientific development to better guide the modernization of our country. The view of scientific development is the inheritance and innovation of concept about the sustainable development; it is based on the concept of sustainable development and the specific national conditions of China's current modernization and construction. It summarizes and analyses the current outstanding contradictions and problems in the Chinese modernization and it is a improving the theory of and added to the concept of sustainable development, which is significant theoretical innovation to our country's socialist modernization and construction.The innovation point of this paper is according to the background of concept of sustainable development and the spreading of concept of sustainable development in the process and positive impact in the contemporary various countries. It focused on the development, without the development, sustainable has no meaning. This article summarized several kinds of development views in the history of human development by the main line of developmental view. This made our view and topic more deep and clear through the main line of the development. With course of world development in the new epoch, it will be given some new characteristics of the times. By the combination from different aspects, this article analyses the concept of sustainable development in deep-level. Proposing the theory of scientific development view in the new era of our country is the combination of sustainable development view and the summary from the modernization construction in China in the background of social conflicts. It is the sustainable development concept with the specific conditions of China's modernization product of the combination, it is the inheritance and development of the concept of sustainable development, which enriches the connotation of sustainable development and it will has profoundly positive impact on socialist construction in our country's modernization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Sustainable Development, People-oriented, Scientific Concept of Development
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