Climate change and traditional / ancestral resilience: indigenous peoples and nationalities of the eastern center of the Ecuadorian Amazon

Abstract

Since the pre-industrial period, the air temperature at the Earth's surface has risen almost twice the global average temperature. This climate change includes increases in meteorological phenomena both in frequency and intensity, they are extreme, which negatively impacts marine and terrestrial ecosystems, accelerating their desertification, as well as high water stress and permanent land degradation that directly affects the food security of entire countries and regions. The regions with the greatest biodiversity are the most sensitive to this climate change, which coincidentally are indigenous territories, expressing that biodiversity has a broad link and correspondence with native peoples. Indigenous peoples in general and in particular of the Abya Yala Amazon (South America) have the collection of more than 85% of the known wild resources, indicating an alternative sustainability and sustainability where the different ecosystems interact. This despite the permanent capitalist aggression to the environment, adaptation and resilience to Climate Change, is vital, not only for indigenous peoples but above all for the life of the planet in general.