Abstract
For several years, the idea of sustainable development has become fashionable and is being implemented. The term “sustainable development” is inflected at all possible ways. One creates the necessary conditions for the implementation of such a development, which is believed to be a panacea for economic crises, environmental degradation and premature full exploitation of material resources of our planet. However, internal conditioning—the role of individuals—their mental and spiritual states, value system and environmental awareness—are ignored. The objective of this article is to draw attention to the fact that the success of sustainable development depends mainly on the internal and subjective conditions, especially from the people who implement it. The concept of sustainable development can be fully realized only by sustainable people.
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According to research due in 2011 by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology in the international program Global Food Losses and Waste Foot under the auspices of FAO, is lost each year about 1.3 billion tons of food, which accounts for one third of the total global annual production. In industrialized countries, retailers and consumers throw away for various reasons 40 % of food fit for consumption. That could feed 12 billion people. Research due in March 2012 at the University of Stuttgart have shown that in one year in Germany wasted 11 million tons of food, of which 60 % of households, i.e. about 82 kg food per capita. In the last 40 years consumption of the paper in the world has quadruple increased despite—or possibly because of—the computerization.
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Sztumski, W. (2017). Sustainable Development—Sustainable Man (External and Internal Conditions for Sustainability). In: Zacher, L. (eds) Technology, Society and Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47164-8_20
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