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Geography 9.1 Paul White Sustainable Development Sustainable Development is a method of progress that does not waste resources and looks after the needs of today without damaging resources for the future. It has sprung out of a need to protect the environment from inefficient use of energy and resources. When countries are looking to develop and make progress it is very easy for them to waste resources and damage the environment, and it is the richer countries that are the worst offenders. With only a quarter of the world's population they use up 75% of the worlds resources; most of which are non renewable and cause considerable amounts of pollution. Because of their large natural increase and fast growing population, when Poorer countries try to improve their standard of living they have neither sufficient money or technology to provide or use additional resources without damaging the environment. Now when...

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