Progressive ideology (Sustainable progress)

Shahab Sabahi

Energy and Environment for Development – Policy Analysis Research Group

Sustainable progress may look a weird term. Indeed the concept of sustainability has been one of key driving forces behind humankind’s advancement and progress. Sustainability has been pivotal to humankind’s survival strategies. It helps humans improve the ways they carry out their daily affairs, develop different ideologies and mindsets, create and find out merits in peace, law and regulation. By creating ideologies, humans facilitate the creation of different socioeconomic structures which in part respond their social interaction requirements.

Sustainability balances people’s interactions among their societies and benefits all members. It also balances societies with engaging communities in political systems to see their contributions in collective decision-making process in a broader context, and energizing members to pursue the grand vision. It keeps leaders accountable in societies and does not allow they impose their own interests on their communities. Instead, leaders must engage and cultivate new values based upon the culture values that already exist.

Sustainability does not halt humankind’s progress, unless the “ideological trap” appears and sustainability from a dynamic concept turns to a static one.

In the my next post I will discuss in brief about “ideological trap”