Good Living: rethinking the creation of a new lifestyle in the post-Covid-19 age

Abstract

Unexpectedly the new Covid-19’s Pandemic has joined to the multiple interdependent syndromes which configure the accelerated worsening of the global socio-ecological crisis. This suggests the necessity to drastically review the lifestyle in practically all latitudes of the world. The uncertainties generated new civilizing designs almost half a century after the Stockholm Conference. The predictable impacts on the dominant regulation logic of economic and political-institutional systems represent a decisive vector that points in this direction. From this new and disturbing profile of the global crisis, the objective is to analyze the potential contained in the “post-development ecocentric” Good Living’s approach to take a renewed position in the most recent ecopolitical debate - now from the perspective of new lines of reflection that emerged with the outbreak of the Covid-19’s Pandemic. It uses an essay based on a descriptive stage with a literature review and critical theoretical analysis established on the interface and the post-development proposal of Good Living itself overall using the human-scale development thesis of Manfred Max-Neef and the eco-socioeconomics thesis by Karl William Kapp and Ignacy Sachs. The intention is to create a new line of academic reflection on the cognitive and ethical-political limits of the hegemonic neoliberal ideological thought in face of the increasingly disturbing signs of almost irreversible impairment of the System-Earth.