Until early 90s, scholars and western public opinion were making progress in developing an environmental ethic fitting for an active environmentalist political platform. The 1987 U.N. Sustainable Development compromise has inhibited this process by transforming the environmental problem from a political and ethical issue into a technical, economic and scientific one. Sustainable Development discourse has become a pseudo-ideology that has defused the possible revolutionary potential of a radical ‘green’ thinking. To contest the currently triumphant neoliberal order it is necessary to advance a new dialectical alternative which substitutes an environmentalist radical strategy for the defeated Communist project.
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