Environmental rationality and dialogue about knowledges: significance and meaning in building a sustainable future

Abstract

The author postulates that the formation of an environmental rationality is a process of renewal of the world, of deconstruction of the foundations of Western civilization and the fallacies of economic globalization; and that the dialogue about knowledges aims at a renaissance that will emerge from the encounter of beings that inhabit the world from within their cultures and their conditions of existence; from where rises the new in the encounter with otherness, diversity and difference; without hierarchies, up from the human right to make oneself a place in the world and to be with the others, and that beyond this underlies a recovery of a sustainable future.