New Questions on Global Environmental Changes and Ethics in the Contemporary Technological World

Abstract

The crisis and the changes discussed in this book are not only environmental, but also socio-environmental: as humans, we are part of this crisis and responsible actors for finding possible solutions. We appear to live in a catastrophic era, better characterized as Capitalocene than Anthropocene, where unregulated capitalism, directly or indirectly, refuses its role to face the deep socio-environmental crisis. Although the diagnoses of the problems are well known, there is a lack of leadership regarding the establishment of a world comprehensive map-road, which could lead not only to deal with the different crisis more efficiently, but also to involve people more directly in the decisional processes. In this regard, leadership is about to create a sense of mission, to motivate others to join them on that mission, to create and adaptive social architecture for the followers, to develop other leaders and to “get the job done.” In this sense, we do not even need technological solutions to concrete problems, but rather ethical responses.