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Victor M. Toledo

Víctor M. Toledo, research scientist at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research (Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad), Morelia Campus UNAM, is a Mexican biologist with PhD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Dr. Toledo has combined his scientific training with studies in economic policies, agrarian cultures and rural sociology. An expert in ethnoecology (the cross-cultural study of how people perceive and manipulate their environments), his studies and theoretical contributions regarding the relations between indigenous cultures and the natural world are recognized internationally. Dr. Toledo served as head of the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) in the administration of Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from May 2019 to September 2020. See also: Victor M. Toledo, Biologist, Ethnoecologist: "Passionate for Life".

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¨The Limits To Growth¨ — 50 Years Later

By Victor M. Toledo, Voices for Mother Earth

Five decades have passed since publication of the study The Limits To Growth. The more time passes, the more it is recognized as the work that profoundly shook the economic foundations of the modern world and its worldview

  • November 14, 2022
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The Deadly Sin of the Human Species

By Victor M. Toledo, Voices for Mother Earth

Humanity as a whole must accept its sin in order to seek to overcome it through mechanisms to stop the imbalance that, as we have seen in previous essays, is the result of industrial civilization...

  • June 8, 2022
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AMLO, Rousseau, and Social Power

By Victor M. Toledo, Voices for Mother Earth

Every day more Mexicans discover that what we are experiencing today, not only in the country but on the entire planet, is a colossal battle between life and death. In short, social power keeps moving forward!

  • May 16, 2022
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Pablo Alarcón Chaires and his luminous environmentalism

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

True, legitimate, deep environmentalism is, above all, a luminous act where the human being gives himself body and soul to the defense of life. It is luminous because it lights flames of hope in a world of darkness.

  • March 14, 2022
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My Manifesto: Toward a Politics for Life

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

The most recent events tell us that the time has come for us to assume our responsibility as human beings who share a common destiny, and that implies the end of ideologies, not one or the other, but all of them, those of the left, center and right, and their replacement by the eco-political, generic and planetary consciousness of women and men.

  • February 1, 2022
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Power, State and Capital: The Axis is Arrogance

By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project

We need to build a postmodern world that identifies arrogance as the evil to be overcome and replaces it with an ethic of humility and compassion.

  • December 21, 2021
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