Leituras (Eco)Fenomenológicas da Crise Climática

Abstract

In the face of the constant process of environmental degradation and intensification of extreme weather phenomena, it is essential to reflect on the ontological, existential and phenomenological foundations of the climate crisis, rethinking our daily attitudes as being-in-the-world and seeking to find sustainable paths of harmonious coexistence with nature. This article aims to explore an ecophenomenological reading of the climate crisis, based on Martin Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology and the knowledge of native people (indigenous people), highlighting relevant elements for an (eco)ontological foundation of the climate crisis as an extreme situation of the Earth’s illness, articulating an understanding of the interrelationship between human illness and the planet’s desertification. From an ecophenomenological reading, as a specific way of thinking about how human presence participates in nature, we sought to explore how the knowledge of native people enables the realization of a holistic understanding of this process of collective illness. The article addresses how the social markers of difference affect the experience of individuals and their possibilities of existence, and inspired by Heidegger, it’s proposed a poetic inhabitation on Earth, valuing contemplation and reverence for nature, challenging anthropocentrism and technocracy, as a path of promoting sustainability and environmental care.