Although there are benefits and achievements in economic matters all over the world thanks to development, From a social point of view, today we live a life of more rapid conflict, in which the importance of crime problems is increasing.in an environment characterized by social inequality and misuse of natural resources that have caused climate change.
This panorama is evaluated in the book Development failure and the choice of a good lifeauthored by Lisith Seville and Alejandro Macías, researchers at the University Center of the South (CUSur), which is The result of several years of work related to assessing the impact of development in the world during the 20th and 21st centurieswhere they determined that the results were generally negative.
“There are positive economic effects, however Regarding the social issue and especially the environment, the consequences were direas seen with climate change and other damage to nature,” explained Alejandro Macías.
In addition, the publication follows the line drawn by many intellectuals from Latin America and other parts of the world regarding the need to establish an epistemological dialogue, and The importance of knowing the population and localities in relation to scientific findingsSince it is far from being secondary, there must be a dialogue because the knowledge of these societies, which many call alternative sciences, is fundamental if we want to solve the environmental problem that we are experiencing today.
The book contemplates a series of development alternatives that have been implemented in different parts of the world, taking ancestral concepts of ways of life, which for a long time permeated different societies, and which were later forgotten with this Western onslaught. And now they are trying to recover and adapt to the current conditions, and that It is about criticizing the economic growth model and this development model that harms nature ».
“It is a return to the basic principles of the harmonious relationship between humans and the environment”
He shares that the main objective of the book is to propose a good life, a proposal originating from the Andean and Amazonian countries of Latin America, where they also adopt ancestral knowledge and relate in this way to relate not only harmoniously and respectfully with nature, but also with a more supportive and cooperative relationship between human beings. and between different collective groups.
We conclude the book with a proposal that is being worked on at the University of Guadalajara, which is called Practical society and decent living This has to do with moving towards more harmonious ways of living in societies region “.
He considered that there are possibilities going forward as long as we change the paradigm from then on Although climate change is increasingly present and many of its consequences are irreversible, if we want the world to be habitable, we need to take action..
The book suggests that we have to search for these alternative means, and although they will not replace the model of development and capitalism, they can coexist with them and generate little by little a change in the mentality of the population. In rural areas it is easier because they live more with nature and know its importance. We have lost ourselves in urban areas in a development model that generates artificial luxury at exorbitant costs For our generation and the next.”
The publication of Ediciones Comunicación Científica, which according to the authors should not be read in a particular order, is freely available on the Internet, at: https://doi.org/10.52501/cc.034
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