The environment
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What is it?
Your surroundings, and how they influence your development. The environment is the complex set of physical, geographic, biological, social, cultural and political conditions that surround an individual or organism and that ultimately determine its form and the nature of its survival.
The environment influences how people live and how societies develop. For that reason, people, progress, economic development and the environment are closely linked.
The environment can also pose risks. Air pollution, waterborne diseases, toxic chemicals and natural disasters are some of the challenges the environment presents for mankind.
Natural resources, land, water and forests are being degraded at an alarming rate in many countries – and once they are gone, they are irreplaceable!
For development to be sustainable – meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs – countries must take into account environmental concerns in addition to...
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