From the first international ecological forum in Stockholm (1972) till the World Summit in Johannesburg (2002), the more and more repugnant process of gradual elaborating of the sustainable development requirements is running on the one hand, and the process of hidden or uncovered torpedoing of its change into addressed, globally effective and obligatory realizable program on the other hand. It seems that a real solving of the extreme problems of sustainable development is not possible in the frame of and by the means of economic and social mechanisms, as well as by the model of exploitation of the natural resources, which were born during the industrial revolution and were developed in the era of the industrial society. Also the understanding of sustainable development requires a radical change. Considering the time delay in the functioning of the climate system, it is necessary to approach sustainable development as a unity of its remedial and preventively adaptive side.