Havana, Cuba.- The protection of natural resources and the environment and their use in a rationalized and controlled way was the focus of one of the debates of the popular consultation on the new Cuban Constitution.

Workers of the Centre for Psychological and Sociological Research (CIPS) expressed in the analysis of the document that the study, treatment and management of the environment must be characterized by the integrality and link between development processes.

The constitutional consultation process takes place throughout Cuba until November 15, and millions of people are expected to participate in order to propose modifications to the text or give their opinion on it.

Regarding the treatment of natural resources, Jose Antonio Figueredo said that achieving this sustainable link depends on man’s awareness that his survival is related to that of the environment surrounding him, and take measures to preserve it with the best quality.

The draft constitution states that the state promotes sustainable development, ensures individual and collective prosperity, but considers that development should be sustainable, because there is a great difference between the two terms, added the researcher.

The CIPS workers also agreed on the right to recognize religious freedom in the current text, however they insisted on the need to define this concept so that the population knows its freedoms in this sense.

The CIPS is a research center with 35 years of foundation whose fundamental mission is the research work directly linked to the social problems of the Cuban reality, with a perspective oriented to its social transformation.