Understanding Holistic Science and Its Role i...

Understanding Holistic Science and Its Role in Promoting Sustainable

Author Name : Dr. Mohammed Musbahu Ibrahim

ABSTRACT

Sustainable development became a natural successor of the United Nation’s millennium development goals’ program which was aimed at ensuring that by the turn of the millennium (year 2000) certain socio economic milestones could have been attained especially by and mostly developing countries. Specifically the objective was to eradicate poverty and hunger. To achieve universal primary education. To promote gender equality and to reduce child mortality.

Like most development programs whether national, regional or global the success of the MDG has been relative with varying results across the continents. Whatever limitations could have been recognized the sheer global consensus on the need to proceed from where the MDG stopped with a new successor program titled the sustainable development program is a confirmation that indeed there still exist some common and shared thread which resonates that the world’s challenges can only be attenuated through global movement. Sustainable development program harps very highly on the need to establish a balance such that exploring the nature’s resources to meet the needs of the inhabitants of the universe must be made in such a manner that the ecosystem must be preserved for generations yet unborn.

This study highlights the role of holistic sciences in promoting sustainable development program

The methodology employed in this exercise is library research. The study observed that an understanding of the principles of holistic science helps in putting in clear perspectives the basis of sustainable development.

The study recommends the need to keep on astounding holism as a way of life due to its inherent ability to enable people appreciate the need to cohabite with all creations whether animate or inanimate for the stability of the universe and its sustainability.

It established the necessity for shared sense of responsibility for the maintenance of the environment if we are to stem the current tide of environmental degradation as well as reestablish and hand over a rejuvenated eco system which will foster a mode of development which is sustainable to current and generations ahead.

Keywords:  Holism, Holistic Science sustainable development, cycles, germ theory, holistic health.