Houston's Environmental Sustainability with Regards to its Population Size (Is the City in Danger?)

Emily Routbort Mr. Roddy GPHC R 20 September 2018 Social Sustainability Addressing social sustainability is a challenge for many places in the world. Social sustainability works to reduce factors that negatively affect human social well being (p. 61 in the reading). Some examples of social sustainability issues are corruption, unfit healthcare and education, disempowerment of women, and social inequality. These problems should be dealt with after fulfilling basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and rest. From another standpoint, you might find to achieve economic and environmental sustainability, you must achieve social sustainability before other proceeding to solve economic and environmental issues. My reasoning for this is because you should have a strong established base that you can work off of (where everyone is working in harmony) so we can then proceed to work on other issues. In most of the world though, this is not the case (considering that you place social sustainability at the top of the pyramid (self actualization)). I believe that social sustainability issues should be dealt at a local level and eventually a country level (in the U.S.). Each city is different and they have different needs for improvement of social sustainability. Take West U for example (a pretty wealthy and well developed city), once you drive out further in the state you find that there are other cities that are not as well developed. This is important because each city has different social sustainability issues. Furthermore, West U’s plans for improvement of social sustainability are probably more developed and maybe a step ahead of other cities further out in Texas. In conclusion, once each city works out their social sustainability issues, the state as a whole can then work to help other states that are struggling in that area. Eventually we can work as a nation to help everyone.