Debating more just and sustainable environmental journalism
Can a socially just and environmentally sustainable? This question attempted to answer yesterday Carlos Montes, Pablo de Lora and Juan Lopez de Uralde as part of a "chat show" dialogue "that took place in the Faculty of Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, and attended by about fifty people ( a limited capacity, the university participation in social and political lives-peak times). The interesting thing was that the initiative sought the particular viewpoint of each speaker based on their field of work, a "cross-eyes" that would enrich the debate: Carlos Montes , Professor of Ecology UAM, brought the gaze from Ecology, Pablo de Lora, Professor of Philosophy of Law, the point of view of environmental ethics, and Lopez de Uralde Juantxo, environmental activist and director of Equo , the view from the activism social and political ecology. Different viewpoints, but the same conclusion: it is possible (and urgent) to change the world, make it more equitable, fairer and more sustainable.
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| From left to right: José Antonio González (moderator), Juantxo Lopez de Uralde, Pablo de Lora and Carlos Montes. |
The dialogue was conducted in two questions, first, is it necessary that the world is environmentally sustainable to be socially just? Carlos Montes brought up the Millennium Development Goals to explain this issue, "since the millennium goals related to the environment are horizontal, essential to work for others," he said. Montes, who participated in the project 'Millennium Ecosystem' , argued that "our welfare depends on conserving our ecosystems. By losing these ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable to crises. "Montes regretted that despite that our dependence on biodiversity is total, we have not been able to stop or even slow, the brutal rate of biodiversity loss. "We have not stopped by the denial of the biophysical limits of the planet and amnesia about our collective dependence on biodiversity," Montes defended. And left a sentence should not be forgotten: "The resignation [to this scenario] is ecocide."
Well, the goal is clear, but what path should we follow? Carlos Montes answered this second question by explaining that change must occur in each of us: "We need individual revolution. " The new communication tools have led to "the critical individual has more ability than ever to bring about change." But of course, have to bring these individuals to their "inner revolution" may do some good: "We need to unite people and new tools in the joint project to change the world." For its part, Pablo de Lora claimed that "the role of law in the construction of the new world is turning." "We must have regulatory and policy instruments to achieve the new paradigm, thinking that will move through self-regulation is naive," said Lora. Was controversial to defend in the future we will have to ask to limit their own decisions as intimate and personal sphere of the possibility of having our own children, our own genetic offspring, the burden this represents for the planet.
Juantxo López de Uralde coincided with Montes and De Lora that "we can only create change through collective action." From his experience as environmental activist and former director of Greenpeace, said that "it is difficult to take the demands of society, environmentalism, the current political system, that is waterproof. There is nothing more frustrating as constantly ninguneo see the work of social and environmental organizations. " Equo, the project promoted Uralde, seeks to "open a breach in the waterproofing of the political field." Juantxo believe that many do not understand his leap into politics "because there is some rejection, or even a fear, to participate in politics." "But we are not resigned to such fundamental issues discussed here, such as climate change or biodiversity loss, remain marginalized in the political agenda," said Uralde. Another important reason for taking this step, according Uralde, is that "the gap that has not provided us occupy the other "side probably the most reactionary political spectrum.
"The proposals of political ecology are novel, fresh, ground-breaking with the system. From a political ecology many people are finding a way to fight against the logic of this system, which leads us into the abyss, "said Juantxo. There was a lot of complicity between the words of Juantxo and Carlos Montes, and surely that "joint project to change the world" calling Montes may have much to do with the project's driving Equo Lopez de Uralde.
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