Sustainable Development – Utopia or Implementation Possibilities?

The paper contains deliberations concerning the concept of sustainable development and utopia. The concept of utopia explains different perceptions of utopia, also from the historical point of view. Utopia usually brings negative associations because in the past it comprised unreal ideas presented in a simplified way and unattainable. Currently, the concept of utopia is presented as the necessity to introduce changes which have to be supported with action and cannot only be treated as dreams. You should be aware of opportunities and impossibilities of changing the reality when you do not agree with its functioning.

The second subchapter attempts to answer the question whether the sustainable development idea is a new utopia. The authors of the sustainable development idea do not present the vision of a better world which would replace the reality. They look for mechanisms which would allow their gradual implementation because it is not about a perfect world but about creating a holistic reality model. Therefore, the sustainable development idea means rather a plan of changes and not utopia.

The presented plans include the Earth Summit Resolutions and 27 rules of the Rio Declaration (1992). Their content is presented in the third subchapter of the article. Implementation of those resolutions and rules was assessed critically because it is suspected that they constitute a cover for the elites who desire power and that this is utopia used as a social manipulation tool.

Therefore, the sustainable development idea is supposed to be a model of reality, an announcement of performance of that model, or at least an attempt to take actions in order to achieve the planned development.