Climate change and survival crisis as global threat

Abstract

The aim of this research is to explain the ecological crisis as a result of unlimited growth and wasteful consumption that threatens nature and the same human being depends on it. The methodology used is descriptive intuitive and dialectical method. The research combines qualitative with quantitative elements in specific fields related to deforestation. Its approach is critical of positions and lines of thought about the ecological crisis as a global threat. The results achieved are: i) the crisis as an effect of climate change as a manifestation of the crisis of accumulation model based on growth and wasteful consumption without saving the rational exploitation of resources. ii) large companies are primarily responsible for environmental pollution and displacement of rural communities that have suffered the dismantling of peasant and indigenous agriculture, industrial agriculture replace monoculture and large plantation. iii) deforestation, forest fires, illegal felling of trees, bark beetles have caused decrease in rainfall cycles, causing soil erosion, change in production cycles, drying water sources and modification in climate regulation cycles and the loss of zoological and plant biodiversity. iv) Over 440,000 hectares have been affected by bark beetle in just seven months which means about 86 million, 240 thousand pine trees, an average of 196 pine trees per hectare according to parameters of the Forest Conservation Institute.  

Revista Ciencia y Tecnología No.19, diciembre 2016, p.148-167