Introduction of "Sustainable Development of Japan"

In recently, environmental problems are big issues for us. Until now, people have given preference to economic growth over environment on the market-based, especially; developing countries, such as China and India, have put economics growth ahead of everything else. Then, many kinds of environmental problems, for example, smog, acid rain, and desertification, have happened. Are we ignoring such situation? The answer is NO! Surely, It is important for us to grow economics but we have to care about not only economics growth but also environment. So, we think of an idea that “development” and “environment” are not contradicting but coexistent. This idea is “sustainable development”. The definition of the sustainable development is that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. In short, we have a responsibility to preserve resouce for future generation to continue to develop. With the globalization, we have to think globally and act locally. For grateful earth, Japan should be sustainable. Now, I write some facts that I think that Japan should change, especially, self-sufficiency in food products and energy supply and population.