Abstract
Up until the early 1990s, scholars and western public opinion were making progress in developing an environmental ethics fitting for an active environmentalist political platform. The 1987 U.N. Sustainable Development compromise has inhibited this process by transforming the environmental problem from a political and ethical issue into a technical, economic and scientific one. Sustainable Development discourse has become a pseudo-ideology that has defused the possible revolutionary potential of a radical ‘green’ thinking.
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Poli, C. (2015). The Sustainable Development Pseudo-solution. In: Environmental Politics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17614-7_1
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