Sustainability of Social-Economical Systems

Abstract

The governmental institutions declare more and more frequently that its policies have the aim of reaching sustainability. But this concept is systematically being manipulated (the sustainable development alike) by the cores of power, with the aim of removing its capacity of transformation, because they want to develop a free market economy and this is main reason of our process of collision with nature. And, as a result, there is a permanent growth in the consumption of materials and energy, the land is being sealed with an increased pace, and the biodiversity loss is mounting. For that reason there is a growing need of showing clearly where the manipulations are and of determining as precisely as possible what sustainability means. The focal point to know what sustainability means is the fact that being human species part of the biosphere, our economy has to be a sub-system of general economy of materials and energy of nature. So the socio-economical systems have to imitate nature and this means that we must deduct the guiding principles of sustainability from the ecosystems behaviour. There is a growing consensus on the necessity to shut the materials cycles and to use solar energy. But in not enough, we must know the parameters which make possible such aims. And the dynamic of the prevailing economic system run against them. On the contrary, in order to reach the former aims of sustainability we have to mimic the other aspects of the ecosystems behaviour, like evolution, diversity, decentralization, self-organization, self-sufficiency and so on.