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with clean processes and technologies. For example, one of the ways for a company
to promote environmental sustainability is by adopting environmental education in
the workplace. Debates, lectures, community actions that can serve as an example of
environmental awareness can be organized. That means publicizing its importance
and its benefits. After all if society walks towards a common goal, the journey will
become less arduous and, so, who knows, we may reach sustainable development.
Silvestre and Tirca (2019) explain that the environmental dimension is:
An issue frequently discussed in recent years, which prevents us as a society
from following a trajectory of sustainable development, is related to the environmental challenges that the world is currently confront. These challenges include, for
example, air and water pollution, exhaustion and waste management, exhaustion of
the ozone layer and, as result, and perhaps the most important is climate changes.
There is a growing concern and discussion around the reinless use of scarce
natural resources, economic growth/economic development and the welfare of future
generations has also won considerable relevance in the spotlight of scientific research.
Unfortunately, the majority of society still doesn’t see the real situation of our natural
resources, closing your eyes for the lack of management or the almost or complete
exhaustion of resources in the face of environmental problems.
These, at the national level, are several, such as: burning, silting of rivers, deforestation, and pollution of all kinds. These are relatively easy issues to mitigate, good
investments and inspections were enough, the insertion of reforestation programs,
the protection of springs, the use of renewable energy, reduction of water waste, soil
depletion, efficient environmental policies, among other actions that aim at intensifying preventive actions and programs, in pursuit of the economic, social and environmental development. But, the search for the awareness of the actors is also done
through more consistent and updated regulations and legislation, mechanisms that
aim at protection around the excessive use of resources. Furthermore, it is easy to
see that the human being will use sustainable industrial processes, if required by the
government or by the demands of society. Otherwise, the high costs of implementing
sustainable modes of production will be put aside, and their old form of polluting
and “cheaper” production will come to the fore.
As they popularly say, the processes will only be modified if it hurts in your pocket!
Be it poor or rich—which brings us to an unequal concern for the environment. This
is due to the fact that there are consumers who are increasingly concerned with
environmental issues and organizations that expect immediate profits through the
so-called “green image”. It is clear that the use of resources is not proportional
to the results in organizations’ financial income. These are proposed actions and
returns that need to be carried out expecting positive long-time results. However, it
is important to promote the continuous commitment and improvement of corporate
managements, so that they involve the set of actors, in order to enhance them, engage
them, promoting training and knowledge.
What makes the interrelation between the natural and the social and economic
environment relevant, after all the socio-environmental issue - aims at the connection
between man and nature, work and capital. Man uses nature, with this, he ends up
being enslaved by his work and the need for survival makes him privatize nature
F. Lourenço and O. C. Júnior
with clean processes and technologies. For example, one of the ways for a company
to promote environmental sustainability is by adopting environmental education in
the workplace. Debates, lectures, community actions that can serve as an example of
environmental awareness can be organized. That means publicizing its importance
and its benefits. After all if society walks towards a common goal, the journey will
become less arduous and, so, who knows, we may reach sustainable development.
Silvestre and Tirca (2019) explain that the environmental dimension is:
An issue frequently discussed in recent years, which prevents us as a society
from following a trajectory of sustainable development, is related to the environmental challenges that the world is currently confront. These challenges include, for
example, air and water pollution, exhaustion and waste management, exhaustion of
the ozone layer and, as result, and perhaps the most important is climate changes.
There is a growing concern and discussion around the reinless use of scarce
natural resources, economic growth/economic development and the welfare of future
generations has also won considerable relevance in the spotlight of scientific research.
Unfortunately, the majority of society still doesn’t see the real situation of our natural
resources, closing your eyes for the lack of management or the almost or complete
exhaustion of resources in the face of environmental problems.
These, at the national level, are several, such as: burning, silting of rivers, deforestation, and pollution of all kinds. These are relatively easy issues to mitigate, good
investments and inspections were enough, the insertion of reforestation programs,
the protection of springs, the use of renewable energy, reduction of water waste, soil
depletion, efficient environmental policies, among other actions that aim at intensifying preventive actions and programs, in pursuit of the economic, social and environmental development. But, the search for the awareness of the actors is also done
through more consistent and updated regulations and legislation, mechanisms that
aim at protection around the excessive use of resources. Furthermore, it is easy to
see that the human being will use sustainable industrial processes, if required by the
government or by the demands of society. Otherwise, the high costs of implementing
sustainable modes of production will be put aside, and their old form of polluting
and “cheaper” production will come to the fore.
As they popularly say, the processes will only be modified if it hurts in your pocket!
Be it poor or rich—which brings us to an unequal concern for the environment. This
is due to the fact that there are consumers who are increasingly concerned with
environmental issues and organizations that expect immediate profits through the
so-called “green image”. It is clear that the use of resources is not proportional
to the results in organizations’ financial income. These are proposed actions and
returns that need to be carried out expecting positive long-time results. However, it
is important to promote the continuous commitment and improvement of corporate
managements, so that they involve the set of actors, in order to enhance them, engage
them, promoting training and knowledge.
What makes the interrelation between the natural and the social and economic
environment relevant, after all the socio-environmental issue - aims at the connection
between man and nature, work and capital. Man uses nature, with this, he ends up
being enslaved by his work and the need for survival makes him privatize nature