人类社会长期的发展历史经历了野蛮时期的“受制于天”、农业革命的“受命于天”、工业革命的“人定胜天”和今日的“天人合一”人地关系渐进演化过程，这正是制定和实施可持续发展战略的逻辑基础所在。从这一逻辑基础出发，未来的可持续发展不仅需要着眼社会经济的稳定增长和科学技术的迅速发展，而且还需要强调当代和下一代人渐进发展心理素质的良好教育和进行资源利用的有效管理，而后者对制定与实施发展中国家可持续发展战略显得尤为重要。

The long history of human development shows that the role of man in the earth has evolved from a ‘slave of the heaven’ in the period of prehistoric age, to a ‘manager of the livings’ during the agricultural society, to a ‘master of the universe’ in the industrial society, to a partner of the nature in the information times, and this conforms the logical ground for sustainable development today. From this point, sustainable development in the future should be not only focusing on keeping a stable growth of social economy and promoting the process of scientific development, but also making efforts on psychology education on evolving development of the adult and the young generations and improving the efficiency of resource’s utilization. The later is significant especially for developing countries.