From Compromise to Fraud

Abstract

It was mainly the economic industrial boom of huge countries like China and India that drove the international community to the Sustainable Development compromise between growth and environmental protection. The shift from a compromise to a fraud happened when it was adopted as a progressive policy also in the Western countries whose economies were more prepared to accept a more intensive environmental policy. Instead, the conservative groups and the traditional (over-polluting) industries allied with the emerging countries and used the Sustainable Development compromise to slow down and stop a substantial ecological reconversion of the industrial production.