In this article, Elizabeth Peredo explains that the climate change crisis is, at the same time a chance to to develop an integral vision to take on this global crisis of civilization that includes addressing: rules of commerce, financial systems, productive matrixes, forms of dealing with nature and water, means of consumption, culture of daily life and the indigenous concept of “living well”.
Elizabeth Peredo is a Bolivian social psychologist, researcher and activist on gender, ethnicity, water, human rights and climate change; she works with the Foundation Solon and is part of the Hemispheric Social Alliance. Bolivia has played a leading role in the struggle for climate change.