Article 01, paisea 008. Some effects of global change on rivers. Environmental crisis, a civilisational crisis. Martí Boada / Sonia Sánchez.
In the late 60s, and with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a defining work, concerns were voiced over environmental problems, and it was acknowledged that there was an environmental crisis brought about by modern industrial and technological society, a society which generates a great deal of knowledge, but which is also characterised by generating a similar measure of danger and uncertainty. This contrasts with the different variants of pre-industrial society, which have historically been characterised by levels of exploitation below nature’s capacity for regeneration. The environmental crisis can also be described as a civilisational crisis, since it directly affects the foundations of western civilisation, transversely affecting the planet’s other forms of civilisation. The emergence of this crisis was accompanied, in different forms, by the appearance of environmental movements and, above all, environmental awareness in different sectors of society.
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