A FEW QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE GROWING IMBALANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT

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Keywords:

environment, sustainable development, exploitation of natural resources, threats to humanity, new metanoia, new Enlightenment

Abstract

In the post-industrial era, the degradation of the natural environment is progressing faster and faster because it is being handled in an irresponsible manner. The idea of unlimited economic growth and the ideology of consumerism have been implemented rather than that of sustainable development. In addition, fossil and non-fossil resources are overexploited. At the same time, the degradation of the social (cultural and
spiritual) environment is taking place because of excessive liberalisation. The ruining of both environments causes proportionally the worsening of human condition. This prompts reflection on the further fate of humanity, and thus it forces us to answer the questions important from the point of view of practical philosophy: How long can one thoughtlessly devastate the environment? How long can one adapt to an increasingly
devastated environment? How long will economics be more important than ecology? How long will one let fools rule? How long should one wait for the New Metanoia? These questions are explained and discussed in detail in this article. It should draw the attention of readers to the current state of the environment and threats to humans, as well as convince them of the need to return from the path to collapse paved by the corporatocrats that is by the "invisible market hand" of our time. (For them, world domination and the unlimited growth of their bank accounts are the most important.) This can be prevented with the New Metanoia, which will transform the economic way of thinking into ecological way and restore the fundamental values and principles of the 18th-century Enlightenment that are still valid today.

Published

2022-01-07