Saferational Approach to a Valid Sustainable Development

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to investigate the steps needed by the actual society to progress towards an authentic sustainable development, given the unsustainable economic growth followed until present. The first section investigates the origin of sustainable development preoccupation and demonstrates the failure of sustainability principles - based on the three economic, social and environmental dimensions - to reach the effective welfare. The second section includes measures thought by the author of this paper to address the present situation and recommends saferational approach as a prudent and moral manner to achieve the desirable human wellbeing, but in a safe, rational and ethical style. The saferational approach represents an original concept developed by the author of this paper that seeks to advance on the road of the attainment of human wellbeing by correcting the sustainability principles that proved to be socially and environmentally blinded and concerned only with the economic dimension that always prevailed over the other two