What is

"Unless SUSTAINABILITY
someone Sustainability means meeting our current
needs in a way that does not undermine future
like you welfare. It is also concerned with the long-term
cares a survival of a specific practice considering its three
major pillars: economy, society and environment.
whole awful
lot, nothing Do we really need to build green?
is going to The initiatives behind sustainability are often
get better. complex, personal and diverse. Yes, I believe it's very
important for every individual especially those in the
It's not." field of Civil Engineering to build infrastructures that
are not only focused with the design, cost and quality,
but also to provide a sense of responsibility toward
future generations.

Human beings are considered to be a

part of the animal kingdom, are the actions
of man to create or destroy natural?
I think the best way to answer this question is
to quote what Seyyed Hossein Nasr had wrote:

be used and enjoyed to the fullest extent possible.

Rather than being like a married woman from whom
a man benefits but also towards whom he is
responsible ... nature has become like a prostitute

For my opinion, humans were able to both

References:
1. Saustainability, the Environment and
Urbanization Edited by Cedric Pugh
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London
and Sterling VA, 1996
ISBN: 1853833576
2. Sustainability by Leslie Paul Thiele
Polity Press, 2013
ISBN-13: 978074565610
3. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2017
ISBN: 9780008203924
create and destroy the natural but not on the same
level, wherein the negative weighs more.
On the other hand, as humans, what we need
to perceive is that: We still have time and it's not too
late to save the earth, but we need to start...NOW.
Assignment No. 1
CIV562M-Sustainable Infrastructures
Dizon, Abigail Mae R.
MS-Civil Engineering
May 23, 2017