Natural spaces, "Taking the bull by the horns"

Abstract

Impoverished countries contribute the most to mitigating the ecological crisis caused by capitalist bulimia, including the conservation of natural ecosystems. Furthermore, the inflexible, romantic, colonial, planning or exclusively ecological conception of protected natural spaces clashes with residents, who reject them because of the obstacle they present to survival. Citizen empowerment, emancipated from the power of capital, should dictate the future to overcome the disadvantages of unbridled growth in the countries in the centre, in terms of sustainability, by reducing consumerism. On the periphery, the solution does not lie in disdaining natural spaces and leaving them unprotected, as is the case in Spain and the US, but rather in taking the bull by the horns and insisting on sovereignty over natural resources and biodiversity.