"Development that satisfies the needs of the present generations
without compromising the capacity of the future generations to satisfy their own needs."
The definition contains two key concepts:
Meeting needs:
this refers to poverty and aims at
addressing the needs of people living in poverty and inhuman conditions.
Limitations:
this refers to the world's finite
capacity to sustain consumer lifestyles and technological and economic production;
and aims at reducing the use of environmental resources and the production of waste
and pollution, as well as controlling social organisation (for instance through the birth rate).