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The Indian Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD) was inaugurated by the Union Minister of Finance, Government of India Shri Yashwant Sinha on the occasion of the All India Environment Congress held in December 1990 at India International Centre, New Delhi. .
The Indian Institute of Sustainable Development (IISD)being
inaugurated by
The Union Finance Minister Shri Yashwant Sinha in the presence of
the Directors :
Dr. P R Trivedi, Dr. Purnenedu Narayan Singh, Dr. U K Singh and the
UNESCO Director
Mr. Miron P. Derkatch in December 1990 at India International
Centre, New Delhi
If human society is to endure
not for just another century but for thousands and thousands of
years, we need to learn a way of life that could be sustained by the
Mother Earth. Human society must learn to control population size
and develop more efficient technologies that produce as little
harmful waste as possible. We must learn to rely on resources that
are renewable. A society based on these ideas is called a
sustainable society. We should long for having a sustainable world
so profoundly different from the way we live which cannot be
imagined without a strenuous exercise of mind. Like human body the
Mother Earth has its organs that adjust to changes - in climate,
nutrient levels and other aspects of the environment to maintain its
stability. Just as the human organism is made of trillions of cells
and so is the world organism; each of us is a cell of Gaia (Greek
word for Mother Earth).
Changing our ways will be a colossal task which may involve arduous
work but as an optimist we should view the third millennium with a
cleaner and greener mind and pledge to work on new pollution control
technologies as the answer to our polluted waters and skies by
better treating our Mother Earth by not to rival nature but to
cooperate with it and live in harmony.
We must guide the human race living in a historic transitional period of burgeoning awareness of the conflict between human activities and environmental constraints, preparing to venture into a new century and a new millennium and to finally help save the fragile and endangered planet with the natural resources already overtaxed and for developing a critical path to governance through modern ideas for reducing the toll exacted in supporting daily life and the ever growing problems on the earth exerting profound pressures on the environment.
