The planetary crisis of the Anthropocene: Cultural evolution and environmental change
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| contents | The planetary crisis of the Anthropocene: Cultural evolution and environmental change Jaume Terradas Comunicación coevolution universal values Cultural evolution niche construction environmental change We are living through a crisis which we call Anthropocene. The determining force in this period is the expansion of humankind as the result of a new biological process, cultural evolution. This has allowed us to construct an enormously extensive niche, thanks, above all, to the increased use of exosomatic energy. The growth is accelerating rapidly and the impact on our socio-ecological structure is unpredictable. Environmental change exerts new selective pressures on human societies, which try to adapt, which in turn, forces new changes. Our demographic growth and improved living conditions are threatening resources and even our basic life-support processes but, even though we study their ecological impact, their causes are social. The destruction of cultures and biodiversity is the heritage of colonialism, even though it is now following different paths or being played out by different actors. We need to generate universal messages, without any attempt to perpetuate Western supremacy and the ideology of indefinite progress, by making an intercultural effort to reach a consensus on universal values and to generate the corresponding institutions. 2020 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511767145021 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/511767145021.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/movil https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12538 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Vol.10 |
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| spellingShingle | The planetary crisis of the Anthropocene: Cultural evolution and environmental change Jaume Terradas Comunicación coevolution universal values Cultural evolution niche construction environmental change The planetary crisis of the Anthropocene: Cultural evolution and environmental change Jaume Terradas Comunicación coevolution universal values Cultural evolution niche construction environmental change We are living through a crisis which we call Anthropocene. The determining force in this period is the expansion of humankind as the result of a new biological process, cultural evolution. This has allowed us to construct an enormously extensive niche, thanks, above all, to the increased use of exosomatic energy. The growth is accelerating rapidly and the impact on our socio-ecological structure is unpredictable. Environmental change exerts new selective pressures on human societies, which try to adapt, which in turn, forces new changes. Our demographic growth and improved living conditions are threatening resources and even our basic life-support processes but, even though we study their ecological impact, their causes are social. The destruction of cultures and biodiversity is the heritage of colonialism, even though it is now following different paths or being played out by different actors. We need to generate universal messages, without any attempt to perpetuate Western supremacy and the ideology of indefinite progress, by making an intercultural effort to reach a consensus on universal values and to generate the corresponding institutions. 2020 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511767145021 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/511767145021.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/movil https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12538 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Vol.10 |
| title | The planetary crisis of the Anthropocene: Cultural evolution and environmental change |
| topic | Comunicación coevolution universal values Cultural evolution niche construction environmental change |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511767145021 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/511767145021.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511767145021/movil https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12538 |