You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
Interpretation
Sustainable development requires addressing essential human needs alongside environmental well-being.
Gro Harlem Brundtland emphasizes the interconnectedness of economic growth, health, and environmental sustainability. To effectively combat hunger, disease, and poverty, itβs crucial to create and maintain a healthy ecosystem that supports human development and economic progress. This holistic approach acknowledges that issues cannot be solved in isolation but require a comprehensive strategy that includes ecological health.
In practice
In a speech about climate change, one could say: 'As Gro Harlem Brundtland noted, we cannot tackle hunger and disease without a healthy ecosystem.'
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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