Społeczeństwo zdolne do przetrwania (sustainable society)

Abstract

The author discusses the idea of ecological society that is described as sustainable society or as constant development society or simply as eco-development society. These three notions are not synonimie. For example, according to deep ecology the notion of constant development is contradict as it cannot be agreed with the idea of the finite world, where all the processes of development have natural external limits. The main part of author’s discussion is devoted to the structure of the survival problem that is analyzed in the global aspect. This perspective points out ecological and social conditions of survival concerning the division into postindustrial societies and the third world. The discussed problems differs in both the cases. We could observe a sort of argument whether the biggest threat were caused by the Western World (the north) or undeveloped world (the south)? Sociologists should be particularly interested in social conditions of survival such as the world of values and demographic, economic, technical possibilities for developing human desires.