By Cliff DuRand
José Andrés Fuentes González will assess the civilizational crisis we are living through. He argues that we are in an era of generalized crisis at a global level, evident in all areas of life: environmental, economic, social, educational, food, health, demographic, epistemic, and existential. This civilizational crisis that humanity is facing puts at risk the planetary ecosystem balance and the world as we know it.
Many people feel immersed in a globalized-capitalist and patriarchal economic system, without a way out. It seems that any attempt to stop the great capital locomotive results in recession, unemployment, and social crisis, so it is better to maintain course and speed, although the precipice is getting closer.
This generates hopelessness and frustration since it seems that there is nothing that can be done. On the contrary, there is not only much that is possible to do, but there is also much that is already being done. The alternatives we are looking for are not in an abstract and future world, but in another world that already exists, not as ultimate or final alternatives, but as processes under construction. But to be able to observe this other existing world, we must adjust our own outlook. And that is why our way of knowing reality plays a transcendental role.
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Webinar
“Roots of the Civilizational Crisis and Viable Alternatives”
By José Andrés Fuentes González
Mon., May 9, 1pm
Center for Global Justice
Free
