The debates had based if on the question of the population control and the necessity of reduction of the economic growth generating pleas on the part of the developing countries that understood the proposal as a movement of magnifying of the international subordination of the underdeveloped countries to the developed countries. The developing countries if had located in contraposition of the neomalthusiana position, alleging the right to the growth for all the countries. Having Brazil as main leader, these countries resisted the recognition of the problematic importance of the ambient one considering the misery the main source of pollution. The main argument if based on the poverty as main cause of the ambient problems, in special the pollution, and that with the economic growth these problems would only be solved.
This meant the reproduction, on the part of the countries ‘ ‘ less desenvolvidos’ ‘ , of the paradigms associates to the quality of life based on the social consumption, wastefulnesses, injustices and ambient degradation of the countries ‘ ‘ desenvolvidos’ ‘. In the decade of 80 the development concept was reformulated and the ONU (Organization of United Nations) organized a commission that presented the Brundtland Report, in which was introduced the concept of sustainable development that has for base the economic development with social equity and ambient balance. However, the countries had not established in its public politics, lines of direction based on the balance ambient and social considered for the Brundtland Report, that according to BOFF (2004, pg.104), is contradictory, therefore, ‘ ‘ no matter how hard eptetos to this development, auto supported and autgeno add, it never it leaves its economic matrix of increase of the productivity, accumulation and innovation tecnolgica’ ‘. In this same perspective Rodrigues displays: The exhaustion of resources is if giving accurately because in some places the production model, that seems infinite, gave ‘ ‘ certo’ ‘.