of August until the 6th of September 2002, reuniting 104 heads of state. The main goal of The World Global Summit on Sustainable Development was that of analyzing the way in which, ten years after the Rio de Janeiro Summit, the declarations and principles adopted in 1992 had been respected and ap- plied.
The Johannesburg Summit, in South Africa, took place from the 26th At the end of the summit, two programs were adopted (The Plan of
Implementation and the Johannesburg Declaration) both accentuating the role that sustainable development played in a society of the future. However, not even this time was there a mutual factor in order to unite all the environmental issues in order for them to be accepted by states and other organizations alike.
These events which took place in the span of 35 years (1971-2006) confirm the impact that changes caused by human activities had on the envi- ronment. With each scientific manifestation the number of concepts grew and with it the number of adopted projects, but the continuous acceleration of the rhythm of development of states made it so that these were not always opera- tional, given geo-economical and geo-strategic factors. At the same time, on the political map of the world new power zones have emerged- in the context of an accentuated dynamics of geo-strategic resource flows- which might in- fluence the international evolution of environmental policies. After analyzing the succession of the events in the present context of
globally sustained development, we consider Redclift’s style of approach in a scientific interpretation is appropriate. That means taking into consideration the following dimensions: epistemological and ethical, economic, political but also social and geopolitical dimensions. Hans Jonas looks into both the ethical dimension, and the epis-
temological one, reformulating Kant’s three postulates, the three sentences of the categorical imperative, demonstrating that there is an imperative for the salvation of the environment for the future generations. In this idea, the phi- losopher speaks of a “ heuristics of fear”, meaning that when we bring the sustainable development issue into conversations, we should always bear in mind the worst case scenarios regarding what may happen to the future gen- erations. Thus, sustainable development might apparently take place in the present time, but it always has in mind a determined place in the future, a fu- ture in which rationally thinking, there shall be better conditions for the major- ity of the globe’s inhabitants. In the case of sustainable development, one must take into account both the principles of Kantian deontological ethics and those of utilitarian teleological ethics (Jeremy Bentham, John Stewart Mill); the first type of principles say that man must be treated as a purpose and never as a means, and the second say that we must also keep in mind those measures that one can take rationally in order to generate the most happi- ness for the largest number of people. These make up for the episteme re- garded mostly by the idea of sustainable development. Our affirmation is
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