Ideologies? Who Cares? The Urgency of Environmental Thinking as a Libertarian Act

 

For centuries, humanity has lived under the illusion of ideologies. Left, right, center, extremes, and emerging political currents compete for power with polished speeches, promises of change, and cultural wars that entertain critical thought. But what has become increasingly clear—throughout history, in fact—is that what truly moves the world is not ideas, but interests: the looting of resources, economic piracy, and commerce as the supreme religion.

Powers do not act out of ethical convictions or visions of global justice. They act for business. For oil, for gold, for lithium, for water, for geopolitical control. Behind wars, treaties, invasions, and sanctions, lies a voracious commercial machinery that devours territories and human lives, exploits the weakest, and destroys nature without mercy.

In this context, the truly revolutionary act—the most subversive and urgent—is not ideological, but ethical and planetary: to embrace environmental thinking as a form of liberation. This is not just about recycling, planting trees, or discussing climate change in lukewarm terms. It is about a profound awakening, a commitment to life in all its forms, and a direct rejection of the logic of destruction that dominates today’s civilization.

Environmental thinking must be understood as a libertarian option, because it liberates humanity from the chains of rampant consumerism, savage extractivism, technological alienation, and the economy of waste. It frees communities, restores meaning to territory, defends the dignity of Indigenous peoples, and protects the existence of the non-human beings who also inhabit this planet.

Today more than ever, the good humanity—those who still believe in justice, in beauty, in life—needs a new pact with itself and with the Earth. And that pact will not come from political parties or charismatic leaders, but from a collective awakening, from a new sensitivity that recognizes that without a planet, there is no future; without biodiversity, there is no humanity.

The struggle is no longer between left and right. The real struggle is between those who destroy and those who protect. Between those who plunder and those who plant. Between those who kill and those who care. In that choice, environmental thinking is not a trend or a luxury:

it is resistance, it is rebellion, it is radical love for life.

Lubio Lenin Cardozo