In this article we argue that sustainable development is not a socio-ecologically friendly principle. The principle, which is deeply embedded in environmental law, policymaking and governance, drives environmentally destructive neoliberal economic growth that exploits and degrades the vulnerable living order. Despite seemingly well-meaning intentions behind the emergence of sustainable development, it almost invariably facilitates exploitative economic development activities that exacerbate systemic inequalities and injustices without noticeably protecting all life forms in the Anthropocene. We conclude the article by examining an attempt to construct alternatives to sustainable development through the indigenous onto-epistemology of buen vivir. While no panacea, buen vivir is a worldview that offers the potential to critically rethink how environmental law could re-orientate away from its ‘centered’, gendered and anthropocentric, neoliberal sustainable development ontology, to a radically different ontology that embraces ecologically sustainable ways of seeing, being, knowing and caring.

在本文中，我们认为可持续发展不是一个社会生态友好的原则。该原则深深植根于环境法、政策制定和治理中，推动了破坏环境的新自由主义经济增长，剥削和破坏脆弱的生活秩序。尽管可持续发展的出现背后看似善意的意图，但它几乎总是促进剥削性经济发展活动，加剧系统性不平等和不公正，而没有明显保护人类世的所有生命形式。我们通过研究通过buen vivir的本土本体认识论构建可持续发展替代方案的尝试来结束本文。虽然没有灵丹妙药，但很好是一种世界观，它提供了批判性地重新思考环境法如何重新定位的可能性，从它的“中心”、性别和以人类为中心的新自由主义可持续发展本体论，转向一种完全不同的本体论，它包含生态可持续的看待、存在、认识和认识的方式。关怀。