Environmental problems and Sustainable development

Since the industrial revolution, economic globalization has caused the earth ecosystem reach to the limits rapidly, and global trade liberalization has aggravated global ecological crisis. Sustainable development was born on “tying together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social challenges facing humanity”. "The idea of sustainable development grew from numerous environmental movements in earlier decades. Summits such as the Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil, 1992, were major international meetings to bring sustainable development to the mainstream".

Economic globalization improved global productivity and offered developing countries a rare chance to develop economy. Various states involved in the economic globalization system which is leaded by capitalism. The malign competition between countries and enterprises greatly destroyed global ecological, because under the pressure of competition, the limitation of natural resources and the value of natural ecosystems are ignored. Deforesting of big range to plant cash crop to increase export, give up the traditional farming method to make more efficiency, and building large transportation network to make agriculture products into market faster, such of these things created large cost for society and environment, as well as destroyed agricultural biodiversity and ecosystem. Lots of economists think that in developing countries there is a linkage between economic growth that caused by agricultural products trade expansion and environmental deterioration. Moreover, economic globalization strengthens economic correlation and interdependency between countries. A country’s environment pollution may be transboundary movement and harm global environment.

Rapid forest decrease, global warming and acid rain, such environmental problems are the result caused by human asked for natural incontinently. The natural resource exhaustion and energy crisis severely restricted economic development, and then negatively influence societal economic sustainable development.

“The goal of sustainable development is to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality of life without compromising the quality of life of future generations”. So development indicator is not only depending on GDP but also on society, economy, culture, and environment and so on. “Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment”.