... limitations". It looks into both the needs of the developing world and the limitations the world has on the environments ability of meeting future needs which is constantly imposed by technology and social factors. "Sustainable development is a meeting point for environmentalists and developers... it could be used both by environmentalists, emphasizing the sustainable part, and by developers, emphasizing the development part". The Bruntland Commission's definition, "development which meets the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs" is often criticized by the public as being too vague. "Criticism of the vagueness of Bruntland's definition is accepted to some extent by Nitin Desai . . . . Desai makes an important point. The problem in agreeing on the meaning of sustainable development is not fundamentally about agreeing upon a precise definition, but about agreeing upon the values that would underlie any such definition". Sustainability or Sustainable ...

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