José Lutzenberger and the struggle for the Amazon: International environmental militancy in forest protection (1970-1990)

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Elenita Malta
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Fiuza, Denis Henrique, Fritz, Sara Rocha
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/37802
• topic: Amazon; José Lutzenberger; Global Environmental History; Amazônia; José Lutzenberger; História Ambiental Global

 This article is about the work of the Brazilian agronomist and environmentalist José Lutzenberger in the protection of Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Lutzenberger has participated in national and international conferences, denounced the Brazilian government projects in the media and formulated hard criticisms of the forest devastation and its people. In his international performance, through lectures and events, he was able to diffused the Gaia theory, which would come to support his ecological conception, and in the 1990s he was invited by that time President Fernando Collor to assume the position of the National Secretariat of Environment, through which he worked in defense of the Amazon and indigenous people. Between 1970 and 1990, the Amazon began to receive increasingly prominence in conferences on environment and in the international press, becoming a topic of global concern, alongside climate changes and the ozone layer. Through Historical Biography and Environmental History, we analyze the path of José Lutzenberger, a global performer in this context, whose performance is our guiding thread for addressing the main struggles undertaken by Brazilian environmental movements and of other countries in defense of the great forest.