Ecological holism and awareness:

on the environmental crisis and how to address it

Abstract

This article is divided into two main parts. In the first part, we present the current environmental crisis using scientific data that quantifies its magnitude, arguing for the need for a different value system to guide us in the face of the climate crisis, pollution problems, and biodiversity loss. We base our argument on deep ecology, describing its main characteristics and key contributions to the current environmental situation. In the second part, following Baptiste Morizot, we present the environmental crisis as a crisis of sensitivity, understood as an impoverishment of our evaluative and affective relationships with the world of living beings. As this crisis limits our capacity for empathy and ecological action, we propose art as a pedagogical tool to rebuild our ecological sensitivity, exemplifying this with contemporary works that highlight environmental damage and promote new ways of relating to living beings. In this way, we argue in favor of a pedagogical and aesthetic project based on the ethics of deep ecology to reestablish ties with the diverse forms of life that inhabit our world.