Sustainable developement aims to create 'a state of society where living conditions and resource use continue to meet human needs without undermining the integrity and stability of the natural system.'
It has been argued that there is no such thing as a sustainable use of a non-renewable resource, since any positive rate of exploitation will eventually lead to the exhaustion of earth's finite stock. This perspective renders the industrial revolution as a whole unsustainable. It has also been argued that the meaning of the concept has been stretched from "conservation management" to "economic development".
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