Philosophical thought on the environment: an analysis about the ecological challenge

Abstract

The international scientific community has found overwhelming evidence that global climate change is occurring at a very rapid rate. The most likely causes of this development have been human–induced. In the face of this threatening reality, a multitude of proposals have been put forward. However, in the present pages we propose to offer an instrument of a different nature, but of enormous effectiveness: philosophical reflection. Through philosophy, human beings can obtain a clearer vision and, therefore, closer to reality, thus applying rationality to try to offer solutions and alternatives to the global challenge of climate change. Thus, this article does not repeat the usual slogans of the environmentalist discourse which, of course, are also valid, but proposes a different approach, that is, a philosophical approach that yields surprising and devastating results, in some cases reaching conclusions close to tautology.