Scientists, through their research, indicate that hominids have been on Mother Earth for less than one million years..
Our life is so extraordinarily varied because it unfolds between two scenarios. In these two scenarios, on the one hand, there is the environment (the Universe) with its laws and matters, with its scenario in our planet that includes life (biological diversity) that constitutes the unavoidable reality. On the other side with humanity with its presence, its activities, its constructions, its way or agreement of seeing how to live, culture, religion, science, technology and innovation, the legal framework, the economy, the management of power and dominion in its different levels, conceived from an agreement with subtle or bloody imposition of humanity, is the truth.
Reality exists and is constituted by natural laws, matter and energy of the Universe, we cannot float from a height because the law of gravity pushes us and we fall towards the surface, it cannot be avoided. The physical, chemical, biological and matter laws are defined and we have been studying them..
All the factors of humanity, the anthropogeny, which here we come to say is the truth, are expressed geographically and temporally with a great variety, so that the world authorities and international organizations make calls for tolerance. The tolerance of some people to other people is requested as a human act because all and all do not coincide in the communicational or performance manifestations, the performance of activities and beliefs in their lives. These manifestations and actions are not uniform, they are an agreement of humanity, they are variable by epochs or by geographical sites, some in world agreement, others in block or individual agreement, laws, customs and beliefs are different within the same country, from one country to another, from one continent to another, from one cultural, political or religious group to another.
The daily practice of life absorbs us and we can say that it traps us, superimposing the truth on reality, for which we submit to its consequences both in the levels of natural organization of our planet Mother Earth (ecosystems, biomes, bioregions, biosphere) as well as in humanity. To humanity, this alienation that does not allow us to recognize the fundamentals of reality, subjects us to prioritize the economy, power, group subjugation. Thus we damage nature and we also lose our health and disease emerges, which are many examples. Let us remember Professor Raquel Carson denouncing in her work "Silent Spring", that the use of the pesticide DDT was going to end the Animal Kingdom, the lethal poisoning by metallic quicksilver (methyl mercury) that affected so many families in the population of Minamata Bay in Japan, among many other examples.
But it is not only absorbing the truth as life, alienation goes further, with the interpretation of natural factors only as resources for the purposes of humanity or part of it. Our ancestral cultures identified natural factors and respected them or made use of them without damaging their structure or functioning. As today's cultures developed, nature was "put" at the service of development, developing an "environmental blindness" that made them live the truth while obviating reality..
Humanity modified ecosystems or parts of them to establish an ecosystem adequate to its social, economic and religious demands, determining the biological diversity it could be sharing with them. This was the paradigm of the city as the base ecosystem of humanity. The Roman Empire was perhaps the definitive break of "society" with the environment, devastating ecosystems and peoples, opening roads intercommunicating biomes and bioregions, exchanging and introducing biological diversity and establishing activities that affected the habitat (physical and chemical factors of an ecosystem or biome)..
The final result of our human history was to identify nature as a source of possession (property) and a source of wealth, as a factor that serves as a guarantee, as a resource for direct consumption or for industry to produce products or energy from it. In the end, they converted the natural factors and the natural levels of organization within our planet into natural resources..
The confrontation of the alienation that leads to "environmental blindness" arose slowly with groups of humans and humans who have been making recognition of the natural factors, of the levels of organization of our planet, first as naturalists, following the conservationist, ecologist and environmentalist movement. Scientists helped to draw the attention of international organizations and nations, which led to the World Summit on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. An international organization was formalized for the establishment of sustainability, based on respect for the environment and humanity, with recognition of the true name. In this summit we were told that the environment is not ours, rather we are part of it, that even each person is a natural factor and not a resource.
It is clear that calling natural factors as natural resources implies utilitarianism, their possession or use for a process that will produce wealth. Putting it in the mouths of all is a process of programmed acceptance, an alienation. They are called natural factors, not natural resources
Bibliographic References
«¿Cuáles son los libros más influyentes en la historia de la humanidad?». Chile. Archivado desde el original el 14 de noviembre de 2015. Consultado el 12 de noviembre de 2015.
Litmans, Brian and Jeff Miller, Silent Spring Revisited: Pesticide Use And Endangered Species, Diane Publishing Co., 2004, ISBN 0-7567-4439-3 (67 p.)
National Institute for Minamata Disease consultado el 12-7-20
