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Introduction of Sustainable Development可持续发展概论 Chapter1 The History of Sustainable Development 第一章 可持续发展的历史 Chapter2 The Origin, Connotation of Sustainable Development 第二章 可持续发展的由来和内涵 Chapter1 The history of sustainable development 1.Sustainable Development Originate in Environmental Problems (1)Air Pollutants Acid Rain Global Warming Ozone Depletion (2)Water Pollutant (3)Solid Wastes Pollutant (4)Other Impacts: We now know that environmental concerns include not only the direct impacts of human activity on our own health and welfare, but also the indirect and longer-term impacts that flow from the complex interactions among all the environmental systems that constitute our planet. One of the most important ecological concerns of our time is the issue of biodiversity .But now we must know that the loss of biodiversity is very serious. There are many species now listed as extinct, especially birds, mussels蚌类, fish, and flowering plants Chapter1 The history of sustainable development Chapter1 The history of sustainable development Continued Environmentalists and a few economists have proposed 提议that the world’s countries make a transition to a sustainable-Earth economy. They point out that the current forms of capitalism and all other economic systems are not working well because they are based on the wrong ethics道德规范. Theses economic systems are also based largely on unrealistic不实际 assumptions设想 that make up编辑the throwaway 小册子worldview: that the human population can grow indefinitely, that enough resources will always be available, that the environment can handle all the waste we put into it, and that science and technology can solve our problems and allow us to manage and control the earth for our species. To most environmentalists and a few economists, this is fairy-tale 神话thinking based on our complete dependence on Earth capital 资本and little understanding of how