Climate Change is a serious affectation to the harmonies of the earth, caused by humans against the rest of the planet, possible solutions must arise from all social and cultural groups that inhabit it. In Colombia, article 7 of the Political Constitution of 1991 establishes the right to difference. Each social or cultural group that inhabits our territory has the capacity to generate forms of resistance or resilience to counteract Climate Change, as well as to articulate their local knowledge to possible solutions.
This table seeks, within the framework of the Forum: Social Impacts of Climate Change in the Global South, to listen to the knowledge and proposals that ethnic groups, women’s movements, peasant associations, women researchers, leaders, have on this phenomenon. The LGBTI community are probably very light voices in the face of the loud noise of their opponents, but as Kohei Saito writes in «Capital in the Anthropocene era» : «But the time has come to say enough is enough and to stand in a resounding NO. Let’s drop the cynicism. Let’s show them what the 99% are capable of. For this, the immediate mobilization of 3.5% of the world population is essential. If this initial movement gained momentum, it would break capital, renew democracy and…at least we would have another chance to half level the wide gaps created by capitalism.
Intervenciones
Waters, borders and shadows: Explorations in the assemblages and dialogues between indigenous ancestral knowledge and scientific knowledge about water pollution – Lorena Aja Eslava (Universidad del Magdalena)
Megaprojects, Mining, Hydrocarbons and Wind Energy – Jazmín Romero Epiayú (Wayuú Girls and Women Feminist Movement -MFNMW)
The Wayuu people, throughout their existence within their ancestral territory, have been talking about what today the great corporate magnates call the misnamed «Climate Change» and that is that for the Wayuu people, who have changed the planet earth They are the ones who plunder their natural goods, and they themselves are the ones who today want to green the entire cruise of mass graves within the sacred sites that represented good living within the calendar cycle of the Wayuu indigenous people. Likewise, what the Wayuu ancestors see today from their spiritual dreams is about climate crisis issues, that is to say that since millenary times the indigenous peoples have been raising an alert about the damage that is already being caused and that it seems that the big investors who live comfortably from their large hotels and mansions from their industrialized countries, it seems that they are part of this planet.
Walking among ashes – Josefina Álvarez Torres (Afro-Colombian leader, defender of human and territorial rights)
Affectations of the interconnectivity of public health: Climate Change, territory and indigenous peoples – Judith Nuvita. Kogui Leader
Since the law of origin of the Kogi indigenous population of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, people have a strong connection with the territory they inhabit, with spiritual parents, with the four (4) elements of the world (earth, air, fire and water) and climate. These interconnections in turn influence health, especially community health.