Guillermo R. Barreto

Zhou Bo

Samuel Bendett

Lo Bobo

Vadim Balytnikov

Kayhan Barzegar

Yulia Belous

Shri Deepak Bagla

Mathias Brueggmann

Alireza Bikdeli

Guillermo R. Barreto

Venezuela

Biologist (Central University of Venezuela), Magister in Biological Sciences (Simón Bolívar University), DPhil (University of Oxford). Full Professor (retired) of the Organisms Biology Department of Simón Bolívar University specialized in conservation and management of biological diversity. Since 2010 he took responsibilities in the Bolivarian Government as President of the National Science Foundation, Viceminister of Science and Technology, Minister of Ecosocialism and Waters and President of the International Center for Descolonization Studies. Co-organizer of the Decolonial School of Caracas and the International Seminar on Reparations for Slavery and Colonization. Member of the scientific committee for evaluation of reparations projects at the Ministry of Science and Technology. Currently in charge of education and training in the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples.

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Can We Relate Differently to Mother Earth?

We are witnessing global environmental changes that have generated unprecedented imbalances in the geological history of the Earth. Climate change is one of those imbalances. To this is added, synergistically, the acidification of the seas, the destruction of the ozone layer, the alteration of nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, the unsustainable (and unbalanced) consumption of fresh water and the global loss of biological diversity, writes Guillermo R. Barreto for the 21st Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

06.11.2024

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