Managing sustainability: Poetry of motion

Anthropocentrism and eco-centrism are the two complementary philosophies that are trying to offer an answer to the question “How can people continue their civilization on Earth without destroying both – the nature and themselves”? The crucial motivation for the study was to emphasize the necessity for a joint sustainability of naturemade and man-made systems, as five largest-in-population religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, teach. Through comparative discussions, the study argues that sustainable development is a very plausible paradigm for obtaining a balance between both systems, maintainable over time and space. Basically, the concept of sustainable development itself is founded on three main criteria – knowledge, morality and timeliness which enable it to be a negative entropy mechanism securing planet Earth’s survival. The objective of this Paper is to demonstrate that anthropocentrism and eco-centrism exhibit a certain degree of rigidity, one sidedness and (to an extent) inconsistency and to offer a possible alternative for survival and progress - the paradigm of sustainable development based on the unifying concept of the main religions.