EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Unsustainable refers to anything we cannot continue at its current rate, i.e., we cannot keep it going. We use the term for debts, economic development, agricultural practices, and things we do that cause environmental damage.

Detailed explanation-2: -Unsustainable development occurs when present progress is at the expense of future generations. For example, irresponsible planning and environmental degradation through exploitation of resources generates waste and pollution that damages ecosystems. Such practices are not sustainable in the long term.

Detailed explanation-3: -Leading among the causes of unsustainable agriculture are inadequate or inappropriate policies which include pricing, subsidy and tax policies which have encouraged the excessive, and often uneconomic, use of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, and the overexploitation of land.

Detailed explanation-4: -To be environmentally unsustainable is to deplete natural resources faster than they can regenerate. Nonrenewable resources are finite and are therefore unsustainable. We are currently depleting nonrenewable resources (coal, oil, and natural gas) at an alarming rate.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sustainable development is the type of development that satisfies the current needs of the society without interfering with “the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs”. On the contrary, unsustainable development does not consider the future generations, or their needs.