We are our diversity, with Cida Bento, born Maria Aparecida da Silva Bento, is a Brazilian psychologist and activist, director of the Center for Studies on Labor Relations and Inequalities (CEERT). She holds a PhD in psychology from the University of São Paulo, where she approved, in 2002, the thesis “Narcissistic pacts in racism: whiteness and power in business organizations and public power. She is a visiting professor at the University of Texas, in Austin (USA). In 2015, she was named by The Economist as one of the 50 most influential people in the world in the field of diversity. What we need to learn, as a human race, about the ethics of respect for differences, not only as an exercise in tolerance, but as a vector for a culture of peace, as a “teaching of understanding” that should unite us around the great dilemmas of humanity (climate change) and not separate us. Lecture from the module Our Earthly Citizenship, by Ricardo Voltolini The most recent conclusions of the UN Panel of Climate Scientists place all of Earth's inhabitants before a dilemma that affects our common destiny: if it was our ways of producing and consuming that led to a worrying scenario of climate change, and if each of us is responsible for the situation, to the exact extent of our ecological footprint, we must also be protagonists of the change, otherwise we will reach a point at which human existence itself would be compromised. The same occurs with the issue of the consumption of natural resources. If we consider the projection made by WWF that we are extracting 25% more resources than the Earth is capable of replenishing, the ongoing cumulative debt will need to be paid off by future generations. The same reasoning applies to the current scenario of increasing inequality and intolerance towards differences and freedoms. How can we change course in a dystopian scenario? I turn to Edgar Morin regarding a possible alternative, albeit a utopian one: as important as “valuing the human condition” — one of the seven skills necessary for the education of the future — is teaching “earthly identity.” According to the philosopher, it will be increasingly necessary to address the current complex planetary crisis “by showing that all human beings, faced from now on with the same problems of life and death, share a common destiny.” To strengthen “our earthly identity,” according to Morin’s thinking, we will all need to learn about our “human condition” (making individuals become aware of their complex identity and their common identity with all other beings, understanding the relationships between the one and the diverse), about the “ethics of the Human Gender” (the Earth is our Homeland. We need to develop individual autonomy, community participation and the awareness of belonging to the human species. We need this awareness to be converted into a desire to achieve earthly citizenship) and about understanding (mutual understanding between human beings, whether close or strangers, is, from now on, vital for human relations to emerge from their barbaric state of incomprehension). In short, the core idea of ​​Morin’s seven wisdoms (“our earthly citizenship”) presupposes that we are what we choose as our common destiny. Subscribe to the channel and click on the bell to be notified of news! Follow TV Cultura on social media! Facebook: / tvcultura Twitter: / tvcultura Instagram: / tvcultura Website: https://tvcultura.com.br/ Follow Instituto CPFL Facebook: / institutecpfl Twitter: / cafe_filosofico Website: http://www.institutocpfl.org.br/