Ética del cuidado ambiental, en relación con la comprensión gnoseológica de algunas familias ribereñas frente a la contaminación del río Tobal.

Abstract

This research is focused on describing the epistemological understandings of some riverside families of a sector of the Tobal village of the Aquitania - Boyacá municipality, which influence the polluting behavior of the Tobal river, a tributary of Lake Tota, in relation to an ethic of care environmental, to have a diagnosis of perception, of the polluting behavior of the same families that is confronted with the principles of the ethics of environmental care and thus contributes to the understanding of the problem. It shows the importance of the ethos of environmental care from a holistic perspective in the context of the community's relationship with the Tobal river. The study was carried out with an ethnographic methodological design, in which a semi-structured interview and a field diary were implemented; instruments that allowed to conclude the rational capitalist individual conception by these same families in their relationship with the river, which revealed the need for an ethical training in environmental care from a holistic perspective from a community setting, which allows them to become new ecological families.