Kotzé Louis J, Adelman Sam
Faculty of Law, North-West University, 11 Hoffman Street, Potchefstroom, 2521 South Africa.
Law School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
Law Crit. 2022 Sep 8:1-22. doi: 10.1007/s10978-022-09323-4.
In this article we argue that sustainable development is not a socio-ecologically friendly principle. The principle, which is deeply embedded in environmental law, policymaking and governance, drives environmentally destructive neoliberal economic growth that exploits and degrades the vulnerable living order. Despite seemingly well-meaning intentions behind the emergence of sustainable development, it almost invariably facilitates exploitative economic development activities that exacerbate systemic inequalities and injustices without noticeably protecting all life forms in the Anthropocene. We conclude the article by examining an attempt to construct alternatives to sustainable development through the indigenous onto-epistemology of . While no panacea, is a worldview that offers the potential to critically rethink how environmental law could re-orientate away from its 'centered', gendered and anthropocentric, neoliberal sustainable development ontology, to a radically different ontology that embraces ecologically sustainable ways of seeing, being, knowing and caring.
在本文中，我们认为可持续发展并非一项对社会生态友好的原则。这一深深植根于环境法、政策制定与治理之中的原则，推动着具有环境破坏性的新自由主义经济增长，这种增长模式剥削并破坏了脆弱的生命秩序。尽管可持续发展理念的出现背后似乎有着善意的初衷，但它几乎总是助长了剥削性的经济发展活动，这些活动加剧了系统性的不平等和不公正，却并未显著地保护人类世中的所有生命形式。我们通过审视一种试图借助……的本土存在论认识论来构建可持续发展替代方案的尝试来结束本文。虽然并非万灵药，但……是一种世界观，它有可能促使人们批判性地重新思考环境法如何能够从其“中心化”、性别化、以人类为中心的新自由主义可持续发展本体论转向一种截然不同的本体论，这种本体论包含着生态可持续的看待、存在、认知和关怀方式。
