“La sostenibilidad supone quebrar la continuidad del poder económico” | La Marea

“La sostenibilidad supone quebrar la continuidad del poder económico” | La Marea

"Sustainability means breaking the continuity of economic power"

 "It is paradoxical to see how she grows global sustainability crisis also increases the use of this word. The companies use to confuse and to clean up their image. It is impossible for a company is defined as "sustainable" when engaged in making cars or plastic containers. " Thus began his presentation this morning Erik Assadourian, senior partner Worldwatch Institute in the report State of the World 2013, whose Spanish edition Ecosocial and Icaria coeditan FUHEM.

According to the U.S. sustainable means "to give people welfare without harming the ecological systems on which we depend." Defining this concept is the first step to see if it is possible to move towards a sustainable society. And the key to change the socio-economic model in which we are living in generating global movement similar to nineteenth-century abolitionist. Assadourian has ensured that, for this movement possible, it requires a complete cultural change, so as to create a "way of life, an ecological culture to change the idea that the contaminant or construction growth equals progress."