Balancing the Order of the Human World: Natural and Socio-historical Conditions

This paper considers various approaches to sustainable development and the relationship of the concept to three independent areas of the human world. The primary goal of implementing sustainable development is to achieve a symbiosis between the anthroposphere and the biosphere – a symbiosis characterised by harmony between Homo sapiens and evolutionary processes. Maintaining this balance is necessary if we are to avoid self-extermination. I wish to demonstrate here that the best strategy for the sustainable development of the anthroposphere involves maintaining a dynamic balance using the same mechanisms found to operate in natural ecosystems. I will also try to show that an anthropocentric interpretation of the principle of sustainable development complements biocentrism.