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From the Ecological Crisis of the Anthropocene to the Ecological Transition
Summary
This philosophical and scientific paper frames the current environmental crisis as an Anthropocene crisis involving not just climate change but the destabilization of the entire Earth system, including plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. The author argues that ecological transition requires systemic change in human-nature relationships.
Crisis of the Anthropocene to the Ecological TransitionThe degradation, pollution and pollutants generated by human activity, particularly in the last century, are leading to what appears today to be a major ecological crisis, the Anthropocene crisis: imbalances and degradation of the Earth system, such that we could call into question, in less than a century, the very viability of humanity on the planet.A global crisis, with the degradation and disruption of the Earth system, is developing and taking hold, and is not limited to a climatic or even ecological crisis, but is affecting, attacking, destroying and unbalancing the entire "Earth system".In the face of this crisis, it is through the perception of the environmental degrading effects of human activity that the primary responsibility of the technologies implemented in this overall activity is identified.We therefore need to diagnose these environmental degradations, understand the modes of pollution action and determine their origin.This conditions the first response to this crisis: a technological transformation that remodels human technology into a technological system that functions in line with ecological requirements.
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