Ekologiczny postulat nauki dla zrównoważonego rozwoju

Abstract

The environmental crisis of contemporary scientific and technological world has its sources not in the way people act but in the way they think. Therefore, because of technological abuse against the environment, it is necessary to review not only the effects of contemporary science, but science’s cognitive ideals. It seems that the main scientific goal of our time is to develop a new paradigm of science, which would be alternative to the paradigm which has been present in our culture since modernity, combining science and technology in an inseparable way. From the vantage point of the new scientific paradigm, the truth about reality should be discovered in a holistic perspective which includes the freedom and responsibility of scientific research. Such a new paradigm of science would fit the idea of sustainable development according to which the improvement of human life standards does not collide with the safety of the environment in a long-term perspective.