Logic and Imaginaries of the Ecological Crisis: The Support of the Interaction between Society and Nature

Abstract

The ecological crisis, as a part of the crisis of civilization currently being experienced by humanity, is not a premonition but a fact that has intensified over the years; how did we get to this situation, though? This paper discusses and supports the idea that the contra natura social logic and the imaginaries of modernity have supported the sacrifice of nature and human beings, which has formed a true ideology of domination that has endangered life in general. Is there an alternative? In this respect, we seek to contribute to the theoretical debate that suggests the need to build another logic supported by the ethics of recognition and the care of others, in which said ‘others’ include nature. Such logic must come from somewhere different from where the problem first arose, and it is concluded that a plausible option would be the already existing imaginaries (mostly in certain indigenous or rural communities, but also in some peri-urban communities) that, with their double preserving-destructive role, can give rise to the construction of possible utopias, in the same way that its existence has been possible over the years.