Sustainable development

Hi, we are Benedetta and Mattia from Italy and we want tell you about sustainable development.

We need to create a sustainable development.  We are using up everything which enables us and our sons to survive.  We must change our life-style.

It will be very difficult, but we can succeed if we start immediately and work hard.  We must stop carbon-dioxide emissions and deforestation. Everyone should create  his/her own AGENDA 21 (Aalborg committments), a personal plan to change his/her own bad habits.

We talk about deforestation to indicate the destruction of many areas in the Amazon rainforest (and others). We have already lost 50000 plant, animal and insect species every year.

Some people call the Amazon rainforest the “Lungs of our Planet” because it continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen. If we go on cutting down this forest as well as the Congo and

the Indonesian rainforests, the following generation will find a difficult world to live in, as less oxygen is produced.

Although in a different way, we often do not respect the nature, too! Let’s think about the trees we cut down in our towns to build new streets. Or let’s think about the stuff we don’t recycle… In this way we do not allow the sustainable development.

We have a great responsibility towards future generations. If we have a proper behaviour we will influence them positively.

                                                                                              Benedetta

I’d like to add a further consideration. Sustainable development costs a lot; it is much more expensive than our present life-style.  If we want to change things we need much more money and industries are not willing to invest their resources in changes which are not immediately at disposal. Therefore I dare say that sustainable development seems to me utopia since Governments do not show a strong will to change their economic systems.

                                                                                              Mattia