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Geoethics to Start Up a Pedagogical and Political Path towards Future Sustainable Societies

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  • Silvia Peppoloni

    (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, International Association for Promoting Geoethics, 40128 Bologna, Italy)

  • Giuseppe Di Capua

    (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, International Association for Promoting Geoethics, 40128 Bologna, Italy)

Abstract

The development of geoethics is at a turning point. After having strengthened its theoretical structure and launched new initiatives aimed at favouring the spread of geoethical thinking, geoethics must deal with some issues concerning the social organization of dominant cultures, the existing economic structures, and the political systems that govern the world. Nowadays geoethics must move towards the construction of a pedagogical proposal, which has a formative purpose, for future generations and the policy leaders, but also a political one, in the noble sense of the term, that is, concerning the action of citizens who take part in public life. The pedagogical and political project of geoethics will have to be founded on the principles of dignity, freedom, and responsibility on which to ground a set of values for global ethics in order to face planetary anthropogenic changes. Furthermore, this project must be inclusive, participatory, and proactive, without falling into simplistic criticism of the current interpretative and operational paradigms of the world, but always maintaining realism (therefore adherence to the reality of the observed facts) and a critical attitude towards the positive and negative aspects of any organizational socio-economic system of human communities. In our vision there can be no sustainability, adaptation, or transition in human systems that do not pass through an ethical regeneration of the human beings, who are aware of their inborn anthropocentric and anthropogenic perception/position and assume responsibility for the consequences of their actions impacting the Earth system. In fact, the ecological crisis is the effect of the crisis of humans who have moved away from their intimate human nature. Through this paper we want to enlarge disciplinary areas that should be investigated and discussed through the lens of geoethical thinking and propose geoethics for an ethical renewal of societies, making them more sustainable from a social, economic, and environmental perspectives.

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  • Silvia Peppoloni & Giuseppe Di Capua, 2021. "Geoethics to Start Up a Pedagogical and Political Path towards Future Sustainable Societies," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-20, September.
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