Sustainable Development presupposes Science and Technology

Abstract

Despite the abundance of facts to show that the development of societies has always been intrinsically associated with the use of science and technology as an essential basis for any sustainable development, to date we have seen the defense of ideas metaphysic and antiscientific. This fact, if, on the one hand, evidences the very force of historical materialism to demonstrate that all phenomena are interconnected, interconnected, interdependent and, therefore, in constant movement, transformation and evolution, also highlights the need for permanent development of science and technology as the most appropriate tools depart to face these obscure ideas and provide the necessary subsidies for sustained development, even because development does not occur in a way that occurs rectilinear, which explains the temporal “resurgence” of obscure ideas. It is the expression of the dialectical principle that “the new denies the old man and the old man denies the new”, evidencing that such ideas, for the sake of truth, have always been latent in the different stages of our evolutionary process. Moreover, without the competition of science and technology, we will see a mere predatory economic growth, based on production conceptions, or the eternal process of subsistence advocated by the santuarist currents. The use of science and technology, therefore, is the basis for promoting effective sustainable development, based on the sustainable conception.