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Environmentalists

Sustainable development is defined as the current generation consuming in such a way as to not leave the future generations in any worse environmental and social position. In my opinion, it seems as if one of the harder aspects of monitoring business and social practices with regards to the notion of sustainable development is the actual measurement of the amount of degradation being done to the environment as a result of these practices. However, an even harder aspect of monitoring such practices is the goal that is aimed for with regards to levels of consumption and degradation. Once the levels of consumption and degradation are measured, a set optimal level of each must be agreed upon or else the findings are rendered useless.
How to set these optimal levels and how to measure the physical impacts of our activities is discussed in the two articles, "Satellites Support Businesses for Sustainable Development," and "Equity, Frames, and Hierarchy." The......

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