Author: Julio Lopes Contrasting the conservationist bias of environmental balance with that of sustainable development the author distinguis...
Contrasting the conservationist bias of environmental balance with that of sustainable development the author distinguishes the influence of both in the current formulation of environmental policies including trends respectively more regulatory or redistributive as public policies In this sense it highlights the global need to overcome natural conservationism a remnant of the 19th century and whose obsession with the untouchability of nature does not admit the synergies between nature and humanity fundamental to promoting sustainability Which if assumed as a progressive ideology it transcends the left-right differentiation implying broad coalitions both political and socioeconomic so that we become socially ecological.
"As an environmental leader in my youth, I watched the proclamation of the sustainable development motto at Rio-92, which inspired my master's dissertation (from the Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro) in 1994, discussing the variety of environmental movements.
Concerned about the widespread difficulties in advancing sustainability as a parameter of socioeconomic development, throughout the planet, I was also not content to explain them as mere predatory resistance. So, I recently began to consider the possibility of there being resistance to sustainable development within environmentalism itself in general. An idea that began to interest me since I worked as the legal-institutional consultant for the first Amazonian economic-ecological zoning (Rondônia) at the end of the 1990s.
In this sense, I studied the original environmentalist tradition (the conservationist of natural environments) in the 19th century, which few scientific naturalists (except the philosophical naturalism of Ludwig Feuerbach) escaped. Thus, I was able to detect discrepancies between the conservationist bias and that of sustainable development, whose direct inspiration comes from the management of urban environments, in which artificial ingredients are as or more relevant than natural ones or those of non-human nature.
The result was the identification of their different approaches to all the various contemporary environmental problems. Contrasting them does not aim to divide environmentalism, but to make it even more aware of fully embracing sustainable development as necessarily changing alliances between nature and humanity, without any illusion of environmental immutability that characterized natural conservationism, which unfortunately continues to influence the implementation of sustainable development in general."
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Published by Global Journals
https://globaljournals.org/GJHSS_Volume23/1-Transitioning-from-Natural.pdf
