Sustainable development: three half-truths and some certainty

Authors

  • Adriano Naves de Brito Unisinos

Keywords:

history, sustainable development, teleology, Evolutionism

Abstract

I discuss here the concept of sustainable development through the analyses of three positions: the naive optimism, which bet on the development without due attention to its costs; the teleological moralism, oriented to humanism, which advocates a different type of development, but loses contact with the concrete mechanisms of reproduction of life; and the ecological fundamentalism, which sacralize nature. Considering these positions, I outline a naturalistic approach, which should adjust the unbalanced expectations of those three positions to a more sensible view. The approach has an evolutionary bias concerning the analysis of man and history.

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Published

2013-12-10

How to Cite

DE BRITO, A. N. Sustainable development: three half-truths and some certainty. Controvérsia (UNISINOS) - ISSN 1808-5253, São Leopoldo, v. 5, n. 3, p. 01–07, 2013. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/controversia/article/view/6681. Acesso em: 30 apr. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2009)

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