O mundo está repleto de deuses: sacralização da natureza e conservação da vida

Abstract

What is this that I see in the world? The violation of people, plants, animals, minerals and entire ecosystems. What is behind this that I see? And yet, can I dare to dream ways of coping and, perhaps, of healing? The text that has in hand part of these latent concerns in the chest of a geographer with pretensions of slug and low grass. It crosses and is crossed by the theme of the Environmental Tragedy announced and in progress - it seeks, essentially, to understand it through the dialogue between geography, ecology and spirituality. This central search comes from some of my oldest intuitions: that the desecration of Nature undertaken by Christianity is at the heart of the earth's dire ecological situation; and, in turn, that the sacralization of Nature inspires the conservation of biodiversity and, therefore, can be the way to fight horror. This dissertation is not a myriad of pages full of concepts and reasoning - it is, rather, an instinctive, poetic, dreamlike adventure. It is not intended to be academic, on the contrary, it is raw meat and breathes. In the face of all this - a living text full of urgencies and a burning chest full of longing to understand the suffering of the world so that, perhaps, to dream antidotes - I conceived a Wild Method that would be free of everything, including me and you. Composed of three instinctive movements - growling, sniffing and howling - the method led the text to assume the animal forms of the jaguar, wild boar and wolf, to: 1) denounce, through literary art, the multiple faces of the Growth Monster that violates and consumes the Earth continuously; 2) to trace the philosophical and theological roots of Tragedy from the practical and theoretical contribution of Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism; and, 3) to identify the relationship between the sacredness of Nature and the conservation of biodiversity. This poetic-instinctive adventure culminated in a painful, claustrophobic and, at the same time, absolutely necessary geographical experience, while it revealed the hidden strands that link Environmental Tragedy to philosophy, modern science, capitalist utilitarianism and, essentially, theology Christian. But the end of the path, which in fact is always the beginning of another, has revealed an infinite horizon of possibilities for the relationship Homo sapiens-Nature - all of which are linked to the recovery of our sacred bond with the Earth. This recovery includes a profound transformation of the values, beliefs and norms that govern environmental behavior in the West: replacing anthropocentrism by biocentrism, dominance by integration, utilitarianism by celebration, but, above all, the patriarchate of God by the matriarchy of the Earth. We are all intertwined by the ancient and permanent biospheric bond and that is our only truth. We are earthly. There is an urgent need to wake up to our telluric ancestry and retake our place in the Web of Life - and the human cultures that defend the Earth as our only and sacred home can point the way for us.