Professional paper
ECOLOGIC AGGIORNAMENTO
Ivan Cifrić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
In the period from the Stockholm to Rio meeting the world has not changed essentially, neither have the incidents causing pollution lessened in number, nor have the efforts to eliminate the consequences of such actions diminished. The author defines the period as the time of general adapting tendencies - the ecological aggiornamento. The world stage has been marked by speedy industrial development, though the numerous problems have remained: increase of population, famine, decrease of resources, pollution incidents. In the world, the controversy of developed and underdeveloped countries continues together with the growing demands for material prosperity at a pace the Earth cannot withstand.
Ecological aggiornamento starts a new epoch with the increasing demand for adapting the social system to the capacities of nature. It is visible in the increasingly important presentday concept of sustainable society.
Stockholm conference of 1972 pointed to the global aspects of ecologic problems and to the need to engage the world organizations in the solving of the problems. The Rio conference in 1992 repeated the conclusions emphasizing the problems of climatic changes and biodiversity, while also requiring greater engagement of every country.
The basic questions of the world development are still to be found in the context of unsolved practical questions as well as on the relationship of developed and under-developed countries. The fact defines also the frame of the new approach to solving of the ecologic crisis - ecological aggiornamento - as well as the basic temptation of the fact, instead of discussing exploitation of cooperations.
Keywords
development; ecologic adaptation; ecologic colonialism; ecologic crisis; ecologic periphery; ecologic responsibility; ecologic uprising; sustainable development
Hrčak ID:
138780
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Publication date:
15.7.1992.
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