Press release / SEMARNAT / Mexico City
The Ministry of the Environment is betting on seven transitions that will put Mexico on the path to well-being.
The environmental crisis of the planet is a reality that is reflected in all areas of human life, which confirms the urgent need to move towards new ways of relating to nature to stop deterioration and guarantee a prosperous future for new generations. .
In the government of the Fourth Transformation, the Ministry of the Environment has worked to define an environmental policy that allows a profound recovery of the country, under a logic of transversality, with a territorial and human rights approach, and with a sustainable goal, as posed by its owner Víctor M. Toledo from the beginning of his administration.
During his first year at the head of the federal agency, Toledo Manzur has expressed the erroneous relationship that human beings have had with nature, since instead of taking advantage of their capacity for recovery and the wisdom of the native peoples, who for centuries have lived with it, has exploited it under a commercial vision for the benefit of a few.
Toledo Manzur, along with many researchers, environmentalists and naturalists have agreed that this production scheme has resulted in a “double exploitation”, against nature and against humanity, which is limited to working under large production schemes, with monocultures. on a large scale that have subtracted the natural capacity of ecosystems to cope with pests and adapt to climatic variations.
This, in turn, has generated a greater zoonosis, since by limiting the natural balance of ecosystems it has led to diseases that have always existed in the animal world spreading to humans, as in the case of the plagues of the 19th century. XIV, HIV, Ebola and more recently COVID-XNUMX.
Added to this is the premature wear of the land due to its overexploitation, a situation that has worsened with the increase in the world population and has generated a growing demand for resources. This is because their natural capacity has diminished and the extinction of key insects and animals such as pollinators has been precipitated, affected by herbicides and the destruction of their ecosystems.
Given this panorama, Secretary Víctor M. Toledo reiterates, it is necessary to change to a scheme that recovers the dignity of nature and reestablishes a healthy relationship between human beings and it, which also means recovering the wisdom of the native peoples who for centuries They have lived and coexisted with nature, generating much of the agri-food wealth that allowed the development of societies before agrochemicals.
It is for these reasons that the Ministry of the Environment developed the Environmental Transitions Agenda of the Fourth Transformation, which proposes 7 axes: 1) Forestry, Agroecology and Fisheries; 2) Water; 3) Energy; 4) Biocultural; 5) Urban-Industrial; 6) Educational and 7) Citizenship, Justice and Environmental Governance.
These processes lay the foundations to achieve the goals set out in the National Development Plan, while responding to the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations, with a comprehensive vision that considers the healthy relationship of men and women with nature. for the benefit of human and environmental health.