Many experts contend that technical and economic progress will create the means needed to effectively tackle these issues. In this book I'll try to provide answers to these questions. My starting point is that humanity should strive for a situation in which all people, all over the world, can live in liberty and health, in a clean environment, with sufficient land, water and other natural resources to ensure a decent quality of life. The way to achieve this state is through sustainable development . The aim of sustainable development, then, is to ensure that all people of present and future generations have equal access to all things required to ensure a decent quality of life.
Quality of life has both a physical and a spiritual component.
Physical health requires an uncontaminated environment, clean drinking water, adequate food, shelter and sanitary conditions, and access to proper health care. To live in freedom means having the liberty to make choices. To make those in the best possible way, people should have unlimited access to knowledge and information. To use these optimally they should, especially in the first years of their lives, receive all the attention, care and education that is needed to fully develop their potential in body, mind and spirit. This book analyses the obstacles to sustainable development, and suggest ways in which those obstacles can be overcome.