ABOUT CLEARLY UNDERSTANDING WHY CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS HAVE NOT BEEN SOLVED YET SINCE WCED 1987’S “OUR COMMON FUTURE”, academically, not politically.
In the coming months my attention is in advancing some new concepts listed below that will make it clear when to expect and when not to expect a solution to a critical development problem and see why we have been leaving, albeit unknowingly, in a period of academic stupidity: doing the same policy development/tools of what has not worked all over again and which should be expected not to work expecting different results”
i) The critical problem-solving impossibility zone
ii) The critical problem-solving possibility point
ii) The economic blackout zone
iv) The critical problem-solving impossibility theorem
v) The critical problem-solving possibility theorem
All these concepts are summarized and supported in Figure 8 of my coming paper ART115
We have failed to address critical development issues since WCED Our Common Future (1987) due to poor political will, economic disparities, excessive reliance on growth-based-policies, inability to collaborate with others globally, slow technology diffusion, and increasing North-South divide. Sustainable development goals are not always met as environmental interest is usually subdued by immediate economic interests.
Labiba, good day. All you said there is right and all that has been possible as all the tools used so far, sustainable development since 1987, dwarf green markers since 2012 and circular economic thinking since about 2022, all create A PERMANENT MARKET FAILURE that allow businesses and governments to sustainabilitywash and greenwash polices that have no link with THE ROOT M-CAUSE of the pollution production problem.
If you look at the picture shared carefully, any vertical line T!, T2, T3,,,,Tn to the pollution production problem is a market failure point that feeds unsustainability friendly producer and consumer behavior
for many reasons which projects diversity in culture, geographic structure and poor governance.Despite of many efforts, it appears many developing countries experience slower phase of development due to interconnected factors-socio-economic, political ,environmental which challenges the taking off. Poor governance due to lack of education also influences such.Global policies by the Brundtland Report paved the way for more collaborative approach to address Environmental challenges which is imperative for sustainable development.
Good day Clea, thank you for taking the time to write.
If you take a look at the picture shared about the structure of the anthropocentric critical problem-solving impossibility zone shared above you may be able to see that it can be used to support your comment on lack of progress or slow progress in solving the critical issues at hand and the structure applies to developed countries and developing countries alike.
I appreciate your time.
Respectfully yours
Lucio
Explanations emphasize political-economy frictions (short electoral horizons, vested incumbents), fragmented multilateral governance, insufficiently ambitious policy instruments, financing gaps, and substitution of symbolic or partial fixes (dwarf solutions) for deep institutional reforms—so the framework existed but implementation, incentives, and global coordination repeatedly fell short.
Chuck did you or the AI rea the context on which this quesstion is based to at least use the ideas discussed there to provide a comment? where have you seen this framework:
i) The critical problem-solving impossibility zone
ii) The critical problem-solving possibility point
ii) The economic blackout zone
iv) The critical problem-solving impossibility theorem
v) The critical problem-solving possibility theorem
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