Freiburg is a wonderfull place to talk about sustainability, once it is really far away from the problems. Freiburg is wonderfull once it is in a ''buble of perfection development''. He talked about the destruction of the rain forest, and we talk about two differents perspectives: one about how the plantations destroy the enviromental, but in other hand, that plantations give people alimentation.
Sustainability is about ethic as well. Is about of moral conduct and values... What is more valuable, people who need food, or preserve the enviromental? Is it antropocentrical, driving to the human interests, or the other way back, driving the human to the nature, ecocentric?
It is clichê to mention how sustainability is basicly economical, ecological and social. But we forget to say how it is spatial and temporal, once the space and the time define the boundaries of the system. Is impossible talk about Rain forest ,for instance, without talk about what they do with the space -we could mention how is the use it to plantation of soy- and what is going on on the comunity and government interests to produce more soya in that specific season.
Sustainability is not about harmony, it is about conflict. Is about relativism. Is about expansion of that 5 dimentions and trying to figure out what each of us can perceive.
Sustainability is about equality, but mostly about considering we are not equal and we should be aware about the diferents social interpretations for that. Sustenabiliy is about relativism, not fatalism.
We did a dinamic: who consider non-western country went to the right of the stage and who consider themselves western, went to the left. After the guy asked for the first color, furniture and flower we had in mind. Later he asked who choose red, chair and rose for the western ones and after for the non-western ones. Many raised their hands, what meas even the ''no developed'' world has similarities with the ''developed one'', and basing our priorities and values -what means the first thing which come to our mind- we could say definitely how diferents we are! How we do need understand the diferences between ourselves and the diferent perspectives about sustenability.
We fight for equal rights, but considering people are not equal.
I liked so much the first question, made by Elias -from Germany- which was in diferent words: ''If sustainability itself depends of so many points of view, how can we know it is a good/reliable thing?''
The main point of the anwser was: ''Sustenability is not about right or wrong, but about adjustment.We should not look for the right definition of it, but how did the comunities, countries, whatever, come to that concept. And that way we can consider all the problems, the ones which concerns to different realities''
I liked so much that cartoon which one was included at the presentation as well!!
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