Apontamentos críticos para o tratamento da questão ambiental na perspectiva da emancipação

• Autor(a) principal: Poker, José Geraldo Alberto Bertoncini [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Poker, Giovana Bortolini
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://galileu.fundanet.br/revista/index.php/emtempo/article/view/492; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115020
• topic: questão ambiental; emancipação; respeito ecológico; racionalidade moderna; sustentabilidade

The belief in the existence of an ecological crisis that would affect the future of the planet, is one of the factors that causes the appearance of ecological concern, resulting in the adoption of non-predatory consumer practices and more respectful relationships with non-humans beings. This study starts from the assumption of the existence of an environmental question, and aims to investigate some of the cultural causes of human predation and identify possible ways in which environmental question can be treated critically to search overcomes. Follows the reasoning that western society as a complex of social relations, the capitalism, as a mode of production utilities and rational right, are all consequences of the modern rationality, cognitive and moral logic that transforms people and nature in satisfaction instruments of individual interests. However, despite being identified as the causative root of environmental question, modern rationality takes with it enough to promote the development of ecological respect, necessary in confronting and overcoming the environmental question, as it will be applied as a principle in redefinition of the relationship of human beings with themselves and with nature. And modern rationality can also make capitalism more efficient in the use and reuse of materials so as to consume fewer resources on the planet to satisfy human needs.