The Relationship of New Technologies, Human Behavior and Sustainable Development

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1, , course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: This report discusses the relevance of developing new technologies and initiating a change in human behavior as the utilization of natural resources and the toll on the natural environment caused by human civilization is bound to reach unsustainable levels and lead to dire consequences for future generations. Such consequences may include grand calamities such as an increase in permanently degraded and unusable natural environments (as can be witnessed in some parts of China), famines, increasing conflicts for resources, mass migration as well as failing states. This report addresses those two proposed aspects of a possible solution ¿ technology and behavior ¿ discusses how they are interrelated and finishes with a normative conclusion.