摘要：This article examines the current concept of sustainable development, posited as an unquestionable postulate in several forums around the world. Without diminishing its theoretical, and indeed practical importance, given the signs of environmental alarm that have multiplied in recent years, the author questions the applicability of this tricky, abstract concept. To this end, he analyzes certain problems of development that have arisen in the Republic of Ecuador (such as the exploitation of the tropical forest, shrimp farms and national farms) and the answers to the challenge of sustainable growth being offered in various spheres. Concepts play a key role in this analysis. Not only sustainability, but other words such as biodiversity, environmental crisis, etc., which have become commonplaces whose original intentions have been distorted and which have become diluted in the noisy confusion of late twentieth-century societies that are avid consumers of information.
