Our guest speaker on the 21st of feb was Graham Allan, Environmental Manager of SMU.
He spoke to us about 'Education for Sustainable Development'
He explained that sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present.The most commonly quote is from Gro Harlem Bruntland. Bruntland is the Director General
of the World Health Organisation. In 1987, he said:
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".
Mr Allen told us that as part of a university, we should be striving to help the environment and help make a difference in the world by commiting to achievable goal.
“Action is our only hope.” (Allen)
brought up in our lecture was also the rising amount of population in the world. This is not always a bad thing, however, many people believe that a rise in population also means a rise in pollution for our world.
“Action is our only hope.” (Allen)
brought up in our lecture was also the rising amount of population in the world. This is not always a bad thing, however, many people believe that a rise in population also means a rise in pollution for our world.
He is very passionate about his job as it came off in the lecture, he believes in bettering our enviornment by just doing a little bit more each week to achieve pur goal,like recycling properly.The creativity ideals and courage of the youth of the world shold be mobilized to forge a global patnership in order to achieve sustainable development. I enjoyed listening to Graham speak and feel as though i took something away from his lecture
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