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LUZURIAGA-VASCONEZ, Washington Germán  y  BUENO-SAGBAICELA, William Ramiro. Unsustainability of sustainable development: A critical look at the official Brundtland discourse. Espiga [online]. 2024, vol.23, n.47, pp.249-288. ISSN 2215-454X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22458/re.v23i47.5311.

This text problematizes the notion of sustainable development as an (official) expression that reveals the historical continuity of a form of social organization and an unsustainable production regime, based on the exploitation of nature and human labor, as well as in the adaptation of social institutions and cultural expressions to the demands of the production regime and market society that materialize the power of groups and corporations. It is understood as the result of a historical process and a form of civilization imposed on the peoples of the world, via evangelizing colonization, political domination and cultural extermination; a new creed and gospel that, clothed in rationality, were imposed with colonizing force through the discourses of progress and development and spread throughout the world to produce the opposite: underdevelopment. This review aimed to trace in its discursive expressions (read official) old precepts that, based on novel adjectives, keep intact the algorithm of the Eurocentric Western hegemonic paradigm: progress à evolution à growth à development. From the analysis carried out, the unsustainability of sustainable development emerges in its original affiliation to economic growth, by recognizing ecological limits to material growth and nature as a source of resources and a dumping ground for waste, by confronting the dimensions of ecological and social sustainability as contradictory, while advances in ecological sustainability entail effects on social sustainability, in the end, the unsustainability of sustainable development is the expression of the physical impossibility of the continuity of development civilization (modern) based on economic growth and material and its forms of production and reproduction of social life.

Palabras clave : Progress; sustainability; underdevelopment.

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