The principles of PlanetaSOStenible.info guide all its actions, analyses, and proposals. They constitute the ethical, scientific, and legal framework from which sustainability is promoted as the foundation of the social, political, and environmental order.
Primacy of Nature
Nature constitutes the system upon which life and human society depend. Its laws, limits, and self-regulation mechanisms must guide development models, public policies, and forms of social organization.
Sustainability as an Exclusive Attribute of Natural Systems
Sustainability is neither an ideological construction nor a market instrument, but a scientifically observable attribute of natural systems. Just as ecological balance in Nature is the result of the active participation of every individual of every species, in human society, sustainable development can only be understood as the result of social control over development.
Informed Social Control
Society has the right and the duty to exercise social control over the decisions that affect its present and future. This control is only possible through free access to information, the formation of judgment for the exercise of autonomy, and responsible democratic participation.
Human Dignity and the Common Good
The dignity of the human person and the search for the common good are the superior ends of the project. Any proposal for development or public policy must be measured by its capacity to guarantee the integral development of human beings in harmony with the collective interest and the preservation of the life-support system.
Qualified and Responsible Public Debate
Public debate is the method for the social legitimation of actions and the formulation of public policy. This debate must be free from censorship, grounded in evidence, and oriented toward the construction of a conscious and participative citizenship.
Preeminence of Duty and Social Responsibility
Under the precept that “law is born from fulfilled duty,” the project promotes a culture of social and environmental responsibility. Individual and collective participation in building a sustainable society is an ethical and legal duty that precedes and sustains the construction of the State.
Legality and Enforceability of Sustainability
The exclusive and scientifically demonstrable nature of Nature’s sustainability must connote legality and constitutional enforceability. This is to guarantee its observance, adoption, and effective incorporation into public policies, land-use planning, and the decisions of the Social State of Rule of Law.
Territorial Approach and Intergenerational Responsibility
Decisions regarding the use and management of the territory must be based on knowledge of the ecological, social, and cultural context, and must be subordinated to the needs of restoring ecological function. This principle implies the exercise of the right to adaptive education and the environmental reconversion of culture and economy, for the benefit of present and future generations.
Synthesis of the Principles
These principles constitute the foundation upon which PlanetaSOStenible.info promotes the construction of an informed, conscious society capable of effectively exercising social control over development, in harmony with Nature and the democratic constitutional order.