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Information × Registration Number 2120U005301, Article popup.category Thesis Title popup.author popup.publication 01-01-2020 popup.source_user Сумський державний університет popup.source https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/78024 popup.publisher Sumy State University Description "Environmental pollution" is a phrase with sounds almost everyday because this problem is very ugent now. It's the greatest trouble of people of all nations. Our planet must be saved. We must do something to prevent the pollution. But few people worry about our environment. Although the consequences of our indifference are terrible. The life of future generations depends on our decisions. The sustainability discourse started in the 1970s, and the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment and Development recognized intergenerational equity as central for policymaking that safeguards the future. This principle is now found in the constitutions of many countries. But its implementation in the world policy-making, however, is rare. The World Commission on Environment and Development states, “We borrow environmental capital from future generations with no intention or prospect of repaying. We act as we do because we can get away with it: future generations do not vote; they have no political or financial power; they cannot challenge our decisions.” popup.nrat_date 2025-05-12 Close