Environmental sustainability thinking 101: The environmental pollution production problem, global warming and dwarf green markets since 2012: Pointing out the energy future we need to construct and the one we need to avoid

Abstract The road towards 2012 Rio + 20 was a road that was supposed to lead to the energy future we needed to build, a future towards a pollutionless world, but instead it led to a future we should have avoided, a future under ongoing dwarf green market failures. Perhaps this route was possible or it was allowed to go unchallenged because of green market paradigm shift knowledge gaps created when you shift from fully dirty economies to a fully clean economy, which hides possible transitions tools available and it makes more attractive, specially politically, to use no transition development tools; and by doing this we give a blessing of permanency to the market failures we are supposed to be trying to fix. Among the goals of this paper are: i) to show analytically and graphically, using the critical anthropocentric environmental problem-solving impossibility zone theory, how and why dwarf green market tools and thinking cannot be expected to fix the pollution production problem linked to traditional market thinking as pollution production continue to take place in the permanent environmental market failure under which they work; and ii) And then use this framework to point out the energy future we need to construct and the one we need to avoid.