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Humanity has arrogated to itself the function of handling, managing, directing Mother Earth.

It is worth saying that it is to command the basic unit of life on our planet, which is the ecosystem.

The ecosystem has defining factors: the occupation of a place on our planet Mother Earth and the biosphere (biotope), physical and chemical conditions (habitat) and the indispensable presence of living beings (biological diversity in Venezuela, biodiversity in the United States, biocenosis in Eastern Europe). These are the environmental factors.

The predominant system or civility of our societal approach is capitalism, which is a social and economic order or system that derives from the usufruct of private property over capital as a tool of production and power. Humanity develops in the biosphere (sum of all the ecosystems of Mother Earth, area of our planet where all ecosystems develop), the ownership and usufruct of each ecological level (the biosphere, of each bioregion, each biome, each ecosystem) or its environmental factors, defines capital.

This usufruct and possession of environmental factors redefines the name as ''natural resources''. That is why we environmentalists do not use the latter name and continue to say environmental factors of habitat or biological diversity. We also remember that at the official level it was echoed by removing ''and Natural Resources'' from the name of the Ministry of Environment.

Environmental possession is unequal, the United Nations Organization (ONU) evidences it, they say in this international institution to which we belong, that one third of the human population owns two thirds of the ''resources'' of our planet and the other third of humanity we have to debate, ''fight'' so that our families get part of those ''resources''. That is why consumerism and poverty as a concept of capitalism, is an issue of environmentalism.

Other alternatives to environmental ownership and forms of usufruct with other socio-political systems (socialism or communism) have been proposed by the people or by political parties. Whoever does not like the socio-political alternatives, has the duty to evaluate environmental ownership as unjust, anti-environmental, inhuman.

Therefore, it must explore other alternatives, whose answer would be within environmentalism as a science that defines a new Historical Framework, a New Culture and new Organizations that guarantee its establishment within the framework of a normal relationship between humanity with itself and with the environment.

Already in 1972 at the ''Human Environment Summit'' in Stockholm, mankind accepted that it was not the owner of the environment and ecological levels, rather, we are part of it as other environmental factors. It is evidently necessary the prevalence of ''environmentalism'' as a model of life, of respect for ecological levels and environmental factors in order to guarantee the salvation of the planet, of humanity and of the other existing species. In this way we can also fulfill our generational duty, to leave a livable world for the generations of humanity that have not yet been born.