EDUARDO GUDYNAS
The Uruguayan researcher Eduardo Gudynas warns that at the base of the contemporary environmental crisis is an obsession with valuing nature based on utility, manipulation and human benefit. It is an anthropocentric position on which rests the overwhelming domination of economic valuation. Faced with these emphases, a biocentric ethic is defended that, on the one hand, recovers other non-utilitarian valuations of Nature, such as ecological, aesthetic, religious or historical ones, and on the other hand, the existence of own values u200bu200bis defended in she. Under this biocentric ethic, Latin American experiences are often rescued, often made invisible by developmentalist policies, advances and contradictions in the Andean countries are discussed, and the implications in various political, environmental and economic fields are analyzed.
