The Unsustainable Sustainability

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چکیده

Over the last four decades, and particularly after Rio-92, discussions on environmental sustainability have expanded been incorporated in many legal texts, public policies practices of daily life for a portion world’s population. Despite this progress, achieving more sustainable development is goal that has yet to be realized, mainly due economies favor predatory development, masquerading as sustainable, which turn blind eye social, cultural limits planet’s different regions, ultimately threatening continued existence human Earth. The guiding question paper incapacity model adopted discourse, business contemporary society. This test study questions political ownership transmutation concept discourse over few decades. Ultimately, we hope draw attention some hits misses divergent claims modern. Overall, about asking than finding answers.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0001-3765', '1678-2690']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202120181226