SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Authors:
• Raluca-Ana-Maria DUMITRU, Afiliation: PhD National Institute of Economic Research “Costin C. Kiriţescu”, Romanian AcademyPages:
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Keywords: sustainable development, environment, environmental protection, technology, ecology.
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Abstract:
As a consequence of general economic growth, progress in all areas of economic and social life, the human being came today to have the technical means improved so that consuming huge quantities of renewable and non-renewable natural resources, exploiting the ever increasing and changing the environmental factors nature at a rapid rate. The human being leaves free way harshness of economic disequilibrium with negative effects on quality of life, but also on the evolution of the biosphere, but not require adequate control over his actions and aware.
It was created the image that the human being endowed with power and intelligence to dominate modern technology and then to transform nature, placing it so entirely at his service.
The modern technology estranges the human being from nature to such an extent that he acts more and more against it, unfortunately contributing to degradation. Thus, nature can be irreversibly affected.