09.12.2024, Moscow.
The concept of sustainable development, which dominates contemporary political discourse is based on a fundamentally unfeasible idea, philosopher, political scientist, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on October 26 on the Right to Know! program on TVC.
According to him, the problems start already with the translation of the original English term “sustainable development”.
“First and foremost, it is a kind of mistake to translate this term as ‘stable’ in Russian. It is not quite ‘stable’, it is a much more complex term,” the political scientist emphasized.
But the main problem lies in the concept itself, which combines incompatible notions. According to the philosopher, this should be clear to intellectuals of the Soviet generation at least.
“Either sustainable or development. Development cannot be sustainable in principle,” he said.
Kurginyan cited the opinion of Soviet Marxist philosopher Pobisk Kuznetsov, with whom he was personally acquainted. Kuznetsov “explained that everything related to development is nonlinear, and thus fundamentally unsustainable,” the analyst said.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
