Area of Science:

• Environmental Humanities
• Bioethics
• Indigenous Studies

Background:

• Western thought often separates biology, bioethics, and environment.
• Decolonizing these concepts is crucial for understanding life from a Southern perspective.
• The term 'geo-thought' emphasizes knowledge rooted in the Earth.

Purpose of the Study:

• To decolonize and deconstruct biology, bioethics, and environment from a Southern Environmental Thought perspective.
• To reconfigure these concepts through geo-thought, emphasizing an earth-centered understanding.
• To denounce the exploitation of life for industrial production.

Main Methods:

• Deconstructing Westernized definitions of biology, bioethics, and environment.
• Applying principles of Southern Environmental Thought and geo-thought.
• Analyzing the concept of 'Abya Yala' to understand non-Westernized living.

Main Results:

• A de-anthropized and telluric understanding of ethics, encompassing all life forms.
• Recognition of the aesthetic-complex relationship between bioethics and environment.
• Emergence of new ethico-aesthetic epistems (ways of knowing) from Southern perspectives.

Conclusions:

• Southern Environmental Thought offers a de-Westernized framework for understanding life and environment.
• Geo-thought and the concept of 'Abya Yala' reveal alternative ways of living and knowing.
• There is a significant divergence between Western and Southern thought regarding life and ecological ethics.