A genuine belief that the Brundtland Report is a big step forward for the
environmental/green movement…amounts to a selective reading, where the data on environmental degradation and poverty are emphasized, and the
growth economics and “resource” orientation of the Report are ignored or
downplayed. This point of view says that given the Brundtland Report’s
endorsement of sustainable development, activists can now point out some
particular environmental atrocity and say, “This is not sustainable development”.
However, environmentalists are thereby accepting a “development” framework
for discussion