Title:
SUSTAINABILITY THOUGHTS 194: HOW CAN WE SHOW THAT THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS TO THE SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEM CREATED BY TRADITIONAL MARKET THINKING BY 1987 ARE BOTH PARTIAL AND WITHOUT CLEAR PRIORITY SOLUTIONS?

Authors:
Lucio Munoz, Canada

Abstract:
The Brundtland commission documented the socio-environmental sustainability problem created by Adam Smith's traditional market thinking 1776-1987 as it was presented as a golden economy paradigm, a market that create no social and environmental externalities, but that assumption was wrong. There were full solutions and partial solutions to that socio-environmental sustainability problem, and the Brundtland Commission chose a partial solution among all solutions available in 1987 and called them sustainable development solutions. And as no priority was set on the problem that needed to be tackled first this led to a free for all school of thoughts competition and confusion, each school of thoughts undermining the goals of the other school of thoughts, opening the door to different forms of sustainable developmentwashing. And this raises the questions, How can we show that the sustainable development solutions to the socio-environmental sustainability problem created by traditional market thinking by 1987 are both partial and without clear priority solutions? What are the expected implications of this?