Indigenous Environmental Interests and their Connection to Anthropogenic Climate Change

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2018v17n3p445

Resumo

This research advocates a strategy to mitigate or prevent further anthropogenic climate change and preserve natural resources. The strategy takes into account mechanisms of social and moral norms, which are innate in humanity due to millions of years of evolution. Social norms themselves are not innate, but the mechanisms to acquire them and implement them are. To slow down anthropogenic climate change global forces, inclusive of governments, NGOs, and collective humanity, should help indigenous peoples to protect their territories and property. Important to the moral argument is highlighting the murder of Berta Cáceres, a Honduran environmental activist, in 2015 by military members of Honduras at the instruction of the Honduran joint chiefs of staff as well as the likely involvement of an energy company. To conclude, if global forces were to enforce protection of indigenous communities affected by the negative effects of urbanization and globalization, then there would be a mitigating effect on anthropogenic climate change. 

Biografia do Autor

Reyes Espinoza, Independent Scholar

PhD in Philosophy Purdue University (2019)
Indiana, United States of America

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2018-12-25

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