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We share a review of the book Iriria. Una morada para la educación ambiental, by Costa Rican professor, writer and environmentalist Cristian Marrero Solano. It is a call to build an ethic that helps us redefine the relationship between cultures and ecosystems, as a symbiotic element for life as a whole. The cover, which is a creation of Raquel Mora Vega and Katherine Quesada Calderón, evokes the girl Iriria, who is a creator and at the same time constitutes the materialization of the earth, the home for environmental education. Iriria contemplates a futuristic vision, perhaps a harbinger of what her creation could become. Reflecting on the need to overcome anthropocentrism, the false dichotomy between civilized (Western) and barbaric people. Rather, the destiny of the earth could be barbarism, caused by capitalist Western culture, predator of Mother Earth, and exploiter of human beings.
The book has 4 chapters:
Chapter I. The walker's trail
Chapter II. The emerging environmental ethics of inhabiting the earth
Chapter III. The instrumentalized emergence of contempt, for the other and the other
Chapter IV. Environmental education is not science and it is not a paradigm
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