The conceptual debate on climate change and sustainability versus economic growth and development of states. A deep reflection on our common future
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Abstract
As the global community ponders on development models suitable for less developed countries combating issues of poverty while promoting sustainable development goals (SDGs), the negative effects of climate change have begun manifesting worldwide more significantly via serious environmental degradation over the past few decades. As these ensuring realities continue unfolding before our eyes, our goal for sustainable development or the United Nation’s noble vision for “Our Common Future” lies not merely in policy formulation and the offer of detailed sequential global sustatinable goals agenda- No!, Far from this ideological standpoint, the solution rather lies far deep in the inner reflections on our collective experience as humanity- of our history and of our past and contemporary actions / endeavors to make things right for our collective good. This paper, adopts an inductive research approach which critically examines secondary data through content analysis as research tool, to analysis the ongoing conceptual debate on climate change and sustainability as opposed to economic growth and development. Based on this grounded theoretical analysis, the results are set to propose a New Environmental Sustainable Livelihoods Development Framework as a model that will pin point the framework of a global system of international cooperation and world governance that can administer an all-inclusive global natural resources management plan for the economic growth and development of all nations of the world through the lateral application of democracy, human rights and freedom for development as new macro variables for global security, economic and ecological harmony of our environmental.
