NIEZRÓWNOWAŻONY ROZWÓJ CYWILIZACJI POSTINDUSTRIALNEJ ZE WZGLĘDU NA RYZYKO I SZANSĘ NA PRZEŻYCIE

• Authors: Sztumski Wiesław

Title variants

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UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF POST-INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION DUE TO THE RISK AND CHANCE OF SURVIVAL

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article includes the author's considerations on risk of survival and chance to survive of \ individual persons and the human species in conditions of progressive environmental degradation because of the progress of post-industrial civilization, especially the Western one. The development of this civilization is driven by the rapid advances in knowledge and technology, but above all by activities for maximum economic growth and its derivatives - unlimited growth in production, sales and consumption. So, naturally, it is accompanied by excessive destruction of natural resources and degradation of the natural environment, as well as of degradation of the social, cultural and spiritual environment. On the one hand, the consequence of the progress of Western civilization is the growing threat to human health, and thus the increasing risk of survival. On the other hand, thanks to this progress, they improve living conditions and comfort as well as the possibilities of curing many diseases; thus, they increase the chances to survive. The problem, however, is that this increase in risks and chances is not equivalent as they appear many more threats than chances. As a result, this imbalance is getting bigger. Political and economic decision-makers, who can hardly be suspected of a lack of knowledge about environmental threats, are primarily driven by profit maximization and therefore they ignore the appeals from environmentalists. Therefore, since the last decades of the twentieth century, it progress the development of "economic society". It is made up of individuals called "Homo oeconomicus" - fanatical followers of God Mammon. There are serious concerns that it will soon end either with the extinction of humanity or with the collapse of Western civilization. And what happens depends on whether further social evolution will follow economic or other (cultural or ecological) criteria, whether the most important goal will be to improve the quality of life and enrichment, or to delay the extinction of humanity as a result of the transformation of "economic society" into "Cultural society"

Keywords

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post-industrial civilization; threats; risk; chance; survival; immunity; mental resilience

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Raciborzu
• Journal: Eunomia – Rozwój Zrównoważony – Sustainable Development
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 2(99)
• Pages: 9-18

Dates

published

2021-02-02

Contributors

author

Sztumski Wiesław

• Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach

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