Sustainability is quite literally our key to the future, and has justifiably become a worldwide concern. In an ideal world, we would have development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The result of our concerns include many environmental policies and standards, regulatory and enforcement practices, monitoring, auditing and reporting, and more, all to provide some assurance that our environment is not going …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…lt;Tab/>The first step will no doubt be advocating the issue. Everyone must be informed and the mass media as well as children need to be convinced. The topic needs to become a political agenda and the save-the-environment mindset needs to become part of a universal creed. People need to be educated on the problem and the solution; this is the most important prerequisite to achieving a sustainable society that really works.