Riccardo Lorezenti: “We continue to argue as if nothing happened, but we are on a ship that looks like the Titanic”

A Supreme Court judge noted that there is a “disconnect” between institutions and society; His view on the situation of women and the environmental issue

October 12, 202223:15

Judge of the Supreme Court Ricardo Lorenzetti criticized this Wednesday Political polarizationHe spoke about the “separation” between the state and society and expressed his opinion A growing concern about poverty in country. “We have been going to Argentina for many years“, he warned.

Lorenzetti spoke at a meeting organized by the Association of Women Judges of Argentina (Amja) under the slogan “The role of women in the protection of the environment and cultural heritage”. A Supreme Court judge addressed the issues via video conference as part of a video conference Political and social situation that crosses Argentina.

“There is no longer a debate between the right and the left, It is discussed whether we are going up or downAnd the truth is, in Argentina, we’ve been going downhill for many years, as evidenced by that Staggering poverty ratesLorenzetti said. He added: “When we live in a system that has extreme poverty, what we see is evident Increasing exploitation of womenbecause the collapse of the system causes this situation”.

The Minister of the Court called for a response to this scenario and noted it polarization grew up today, which he described as “slurred speech“. “If we don’t have a reaction to this, we will leave always falls“, he emphasized.

“It amazes me While we are in a constant downward spiral, we continue to reason as if nothing has happened and as if we are on a ship with a promising future, when in reality we are all very clear that it is more like the Titanic. shooting.

For Lorenzetti, “the disconnection between institutions and experience affects institutional credibility, including judicial credibility.”

Environment and feminism

During his speech, Lorenzetti referred to the protection of the environment as part of the struggle of the “great movements” that took place in the world and in Argentina. In the same analysis, she recorded the struggle that many women went through both in the country and in other countries.

“When it is said 21st century is the century of womenIt was not born from the decision of any president, it was born from the struggle of several people who started it, one woman, two women, three women, many times they suffered violence, discrimination; They battled adversity and added to it until they created a movement and that the movement was upward, and that this ascent created a condition which he dare not question today“, he noted.

Lorenzetti compared this situation to the struggle for democracy. “People were mobilized by democracy, but this is not a decision taken from above, it arose from the struggle in the streets, against the dictatorship, and they also mobilized for human rights. And it was born on the street, it was not born from a higher decision,” he said.

The Minister of Justice assured that “there are always people who fight for the ideal against adversity” and “against despair”. Thus, he cited various figures who distinguished themselves in the protection of the environment, such as Maria Sibylla Merian, considered the “mother of entomology”; activist Greta Thunberg; The first woman in America to be Secretary of the Environment, Yolanda Ortiz, and also Berta Cáceres, a leader who was assassinated in Honduras in 2016.

“There is a very close connection between environmental issues, poverty and human exploitation“, the judge analyzes online with his view of the country and the topic of the meeting of the Association of Women Judges.

“I always struggle with this narrow view of the environment that some people have, which says that the environment is limited to taking care of animals, fish, whales, penguins. In reality, the environmental issue is a change in the political, economic and social system. It is the idea that we are facing the end of a cycle. The development model since the industrial revolution has reached its limit And that edge is what we call ecological collapse or decadence,” he elaborated.

At the end of the presentation, Lorenzetti pointed to the demands of different sectors to adopt a feminist approach to justice and connected it to the concept of “Mother Nature” used in environmental issues. “What we are doing now is to connect the gender perspective with the environmental perspective because they are integrated: A gender perspective and an environmental perspective work together“, he said.

“That’s why it’s important to understand why we want more feminism, but it’s not because of the attitude of power, but because of the gaze,” she assured. For example, he cited that the concept of “earth” was included in the constitutional regulations in Bolivia. “How we look at problems determines how we go about solving them. That’s why, in terms of sentencing, and AMJA has worked a lot on this, there is a gender perspective in sentencing,” she added.