Civilizational Crisis: Impacts on Health and Life
Working Group on International Health and Health Sovereignty
The CLACSO Working Group on International Health and Health Sovereignty presents the VI South-South International Health Dossier, a joint work of the FLACSO RD International Health Program (Dominican Republic Program) and the Health Area of IDEP-Institute of Participation and State Studies (Argentina).
In the introduction, the authors argue that “we are facing a multidimensional crisis that affects all areas of life. It is the crisis of an unsustainable production and consumption model that threatens the life of the planet; it is the terminal crisis of the civilizational pattern of Western capitalist modernity. This crisis affects life and health in the broadest sense, impacting ecosystems and their biodiversity, which puts life on the planet at risk. The environmental crisis and climate change are only one of its most serious and evident manifestations. In this article, we will discuss the multiple health problems generated by this crisis, including the emergence of pandemics and natural disasters, which are expressions of environmental degradation and the breakdown of the society-nature metabolism. In conclusion, we propose that the only way out of the crisis—hence its civilizational character—is a profound and radical change to the civilizational model that characterizes globalized capitalism, which implies building a new way of living, relating to one another, producing, and consuming. From this perspective, we approach the concept of Living Well/Good Living of our Indigenous peoples, which intersects with the proposals of community socialism and ecosocialism.”
Authors: Oscar Feo, Ana María Rodrigues, Francis Saavedra, Juan Quintana and Pedro Alcalá.
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