Ecological Solidarity and Relational Sustainability Against Underwater Climate Change Threats: A Giant Algae Forest Triggers Social Awareness-Raising Practices and Brotherhood Processes.

Ecological solidarity and relational sustainability are respectively a necessary support and condition to prevent further degenerative states of an imminent, already present and/or persistent danger in an ecosystem on the one hand, and to maintain and/or regenerate the balance and harmony of the links and interconnections between living organisms, mineral elements and humanity on the other. The holistic ‘One Health’ vision together with the paradigm of relational sustainability is demonstrated in nature by the relational evidence of the underwater kelp forests of Laminaria ochroleuca present in the Strait of Messina - Mediterranean Sea (Giaccone T., 2024). The common and shared objectives of protection and conservation of these forests as well as of actions against the threats of climate change, the feeling of fraternity that arises from the awareness of a common eco-systemic belonging and from the sharing of interests and goals, finds expression in social practices of awareness-raising and altruism whose effects are mainly oriented towards the decrease of eco-anxieties, the diffusion of sustainable lifestyles, the increase of ecological literacy, integral well-being and the redefinition of the ‘body-territory’ assumed as ‘common home’.