The director of the Fuhem Foundation, Yayo Herrero participates, tomorrow, Wednesday, November 22nd at 8:00 p.m., in the Cartagena Thinking Program series' Ecosocial Transition or Collapse ', with a talk entitled,' Towards an economy and politics that rebuild ties with the Earth and between the people ', which will take place in the Josefina Soria Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
The event will be presented by Julia Martínez, technical director of the New Culture of Water Foundation, who says that "we are immersed in global processes of ecological and social destabilization that transcend human experience, systems that sustain life are in danger and we need to illuminate new paradigms and transition processes towards more democratic, fair and sustainable social stages, and, in the measure in which we are still in time to avoid the most critical scenarios, it is essential to do it in a few decades ".
The cycle 'Ecosocial transition or collapse', in which this act of Cartagena is inscribed, thinks is reviewing the fundamental problem of our time: the non-viability of the dominant model of collective human life and the need to implement the eco-social transition as soon as possible. cushion the already inevitable consequences of the looming collapse and its catastrophic effects for the sphere of life.
In the same, in addition to Yayo Herrero, Jorge Riechmann has already participated and is expected to be completed with the participation on December 11 of the CSIC researcher Antonio Turiel.
Cartagena Piensa brings to this cycle three national referents of critical thinking around the fundamental problem of our time, such as the unviability of the dominant model of collective human life and the need to implement as soon as possible the eco-social transition that cushions the already inevitable consequences of the looming collapse and its catastrophic effects for the sphere of life.
YAYO HERRERO
Yayo Herrero has a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, an Agricultural Technical Engineer, a Diploma in Social Education and a DEA in Educational Sciences, and is considered one of the most influential researchers in the field of ecofeminism and ecosocialism in Europe.
She has been the state coordinator of Ecologists in Action and has participated in numerous social initiatives on the promotion of Human Rights and social ecology.
She is currently a professor-collaborator of the Unesco Chair of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development (UNED) and general director of the Fuhem.
Co-author of more than a dozen books related to social ecology and numerous articles.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena