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Growth, development, and sustainability are related but distinct ideas. Growth is normally taken to mean economic growth, which is an increase in the amount of trade, and if population is unchanging, an increase in standard of living. Development is an increase in quality of life. Sustainability is the capacity of a community of any size to ensure that all of it’s population is able to mean all of their needs in perpetuity, using their time and skills, and the energy, resources, and ecological function of the land they are co-stewards of, .

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Some of these challenges include: climate change, energy consumption, waste production, threats to public health, poverty, social exclusion, management of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and land use. Economic, environmental and social concerns constitute the three basic pillars of the sustainable development principle. The extractive industry contributes to sustainable development by integrating economic growth with environmental protection, social progress and effective governance. Environmental degradation, pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions, indoor air pollution and air quality, water pollution from raw sewage, inadequate sanitation, depletion of potable water resources, soil pollution, sound pollution, deforestation, agricultural land degradation, habitat destruction. Sustainable growth means maintaining the growth rate without causing other economic problems. Rapid growth may deplete resources, create environmental problems and contribute to global warming. Some of these challenges include: climate change, energy consumption, waste production, threats to public health, poverty, social exclusion, management of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, and land use. The issue of sustainability is important for development because if the natural resources are not used carefully, they may not be available for future generations. The depleting resources of a country may ultimately result in a lack of development of the country. Growth and sustainable development covers various. aspects of life namely; ecological, economic, socio-cultural, political sustainability, and defense and security. Economic sustainability is all about giving people what they want without compromising the quality of life, especially in the developing world. Environmental sustainability: It is the process of meeting the needs of air, food, water, and shelter as well as ensuring that the environment is neither affected nor polluted. This concept goes beyond environmental sustainability, which concerns earth's natural resources, to include economic and social sustainability, which relate to meeting people's current economic and social needs without compromising future generations.