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Volume 8, Issue 10 (Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617 Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGEOctober 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
4 th World Conference on
Sustainability, ethics and climate change
Jose Luis Sanchez Garcia
Catholic University of Valencia, Spain
In this conference, we seek to address the phenomenon of climate change and its repercussions from the field of anthropology,
in order to propose a sustainability ethics that we believe to be decisive. For an extension of the general perspective on such a
complex phenomenon, we think that the contribution of stratigraphic research should not be overlooked, as it observes, from a
geological scope, the succession of variations in the climatic conditions that have taken place in our planet along its long history
of 4.6 billion years. Both the stratigraphic and the fossil records provide evidence of major climatic changes taking place in our
planet in the past. In the present change, an endogenous multifactorial causality seems to converge with specific anthropogenic
factors. We therefore agree on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Since some environmentalist views
exclude the human being in their consideration of the ecosystem, and if anything they accommodate man in their approaches
as a variable always distorting and deteriorating the environment, we believe that a fundamental rethinking of the question
is needed from the perspective of an integral environmentalism. Our position does not exclude the human being from this
multifactorial equation, but also considers man as the fundamental, modifiable variable in that process. We thus consider the
environmental problem in the broader framework of integral ecology, where the human being takes a central place, understood
as a free person and a moral subject, responsible for his actions and a key element in any consideration and review of the
process. In this context, the concept of sustainability emerges as a key concept, a concept that must guide human action, and
from which it is possible to appeal to the ethical and ecological responsibility of the human being. Man is called to do right in
all orders. When he does not respect this orientation, so implicitly embedded in his own conscience, he becomes denatured
and suffers the consequences in himself and in the environment where he lives. We believe that it is a priority to seek the
foundations of the existence of God, analyzing the theistic theory, a foundation of sustainability for the good of man himself
and the planet.
Biography
Jose Luis Sanchez Garcia is a Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Catholic University of Valencia St Vincent Martyr since 2004. He directs Fides et Ratio Chair and
exercises the technical direction of the Chair of Theology of the Saint Thomas of Villanueva Charity. He is the Director of Socio-economic and Political Observatory
of the Catholic University of Valencia. He has previously held other academic and executive positions at both the Catholic University and the University of Valencia.
He is an Expert in Anthropology, Philosophy, Theology and Development of Human Capacities. He holds a Doctorate degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical
Lateran University (Rome) and Philosophy and Education Sciences from the University of Valencia. He holds a degree in Theology from the Lateran University and
in Philosophy and Letters from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the Director of permanent work and research line "poverty, hunger in the world and
emerging foods" which brings together more than 50 researchers.
Jose Luis Sanchez Garcia, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-036