Nature as co- author of our history
Keywords:
Social science, Human science, World system, Capitalism, NatureAbstract
Every society develops a specific relationship with nature with the aim of satisfying its necessities. Undoubtedly, the societies that people have created respond to the logic of a constructed environment (therefore, unnatural) of considerable size, with scarcer natural spaces. What works there is not life but raw material, industrial products, contaminating products and resources. Nature is reduced to an inert being, to a mere environmental appendix. For many decades, social and human sciences have considered human actions as a dominant practice. This reflection is elaborated from the recognition of the importance of having an argument about the necessities for these sciences; the explanation of causes and the effects that human actions have in nature and the forms in which this impacts the ways of being and be in the world.Downloads
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