This interview is part of a questionnaire aimed at making visible how environmental degradation impacts daily life and human rights, particularly from the perspective of local communities and youth #ForABetterWorld

There is a less-explored but equally structural dimension: the environment. This lens allows us to see how the regime used territory, cities, and natural resources as tools for social control and economic reorganization. Environmental and urban policies were not merely technical add-ons, but rather key elements of a broader strategy to impose a new order.

More than half of the planet’s ocean lies beyond the control of any single country.This is what we call the High Seas: international waters that, for a long time, remained outside the reach of environmental laws and protections. But that is starting to change.