{"title":"Crisi planetària: Els\u0000riscos de l’evolució cultural i el fracàs\u0000d’Occident","authors":"Jaume Terradas","doi":"10.7203/metode.10.12538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12538","url":null,"abstract":"We\u0000are living through a crisis which we call Anthropocene. The\u0000determining force in this period is the expansion of humankind as the\u0000result of a new biological process, cultural evolution. This has\u0000allowed us to construct an enormously extensive niche thanks, above\u0000all, to the increased use of exosomatic energy. The growth is\u0000accelerating rapidly and the impact on our socio-ecological structure\u0000is unpredictable. Environmental change exerts new selective pressures\u0000on human societies, which try to adapt, which in turn, forces new\u0000changes. Our demographic growth and improved living conditions are\u0000threatening resources and even our basic life-support processes but,\u0000even though we study their ecological impact, but their causes are\u0000social. The destruction of cultures and biodiversity is the heritage\u0000of colonialism, even though it is now following different paths or\u0000being played out by different actors. We need to generate universal\u0000messages, not attempt to perpetuate Western supremacy and the ideology\u0000of indefinite progress, but an intercultural effort to reach a\u0000consensus on universal values and to generate the corresponding\u0000institutions.","PeriodicalId":41648,"journal":{"name":"Metode Science Studies Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71305840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}