Ubuntu: restoring the relationship between humans and nature as a possibility to rethink about global risks

Authors

  • Felizardo Antonio Pedro Universidade Rovuma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v60i0.80038

Keywords:

Ubuntu, human being, justice, risks, nature

Abstract

Utopias are constitutive of human nature as a dialectical field in relation to the past, present and future. Thus, human beings of all times, in order to face both natural and social ecosystem relations, had to build utopias. Ubuntu is a bantu people's utopia. Its specificity lies in the fact that, born from the concrete experiences of the Bantu of the past, it remains open to the present and the future, based on the relational ontology expressed in the sentence I am, because we are. It is in this spirit that, despite being built in the past, ubuntu can constitute a perspective for rethinking about the global risks arising from the Anthropocene, characterized by the intensive interference of homo economicus in nature and in the lives of human beings. Hence, the global risks arising both from this interference and from the problems between human beings are, in our view, questions of justice resulting both from global apartheid, in the relationship between rich and poor, and from the crisis in the relationship between human beings and nature. Thus, in addition to the technical solutions widely defended, we propose ubuntu as a possibility to restore the relationship between human beings and these with nature.

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Published

2022-12-23

How to Cite

Pedro, F. A. (2022). Ubuntu: restoring the relationship between humans and nature as a possibility to rethink about global risks. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 60. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v60i0.80038

Issue

Vol. 60 (2022): Socio-environmental dismantling and emerging resistance - Risks on the global periphery from a Lusophone perspective

Section

Risks in the global periphery from a Lusophone perspective

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