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Marcílio de Freitas. The Future of Amazonia in Brazil
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Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
References
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Amazonia: Worldwide Material and Symbolic Representations
References
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Globalization of Environmental Issues
2.3 Uncertainties and Controversies of the Twenty-First Century
References
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Political Utopia: New Worldwide Political Contract
3.3 Democracy and the Universal Political System
3.4 Environmental Utopia: New Global Nature Contract and Amazonia
3.5 Social Utopia: New Worldwide Social Contract
3.6 Ethical Utopia: A Pluricultural Ethical Contract
3.7 The Future: The Sustainability of Utopias
References
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Relevant Scenarios for Science Education
4.3 Science, Religion, and Sustainability: Contradictions and Ruptures
4.4 Sustainability: Amazonia, the Myth of Immortality and the Sacred
References
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Sustainability: Foundations and Principles
5.3 Sustainability of Nature: Historical Elements
5.4 Sustainability of Development: New Constituent Elements
5.5 Environment, Amazonia, and Sustainability: Guidelines and Propositions
References
CHAPTER SIX
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Amazonia and Development: Contours and Methodological Approach
6.3 Predatory Development and the Great Projects in Amazonia: A Perverse Inheritance from the Twentieth Century
6.3.1 Predatory Development Projects in Amazonia: Illustrative Elements
References
CHAPTER SEVEN
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Destruction of Amazon Fund: The Diplomatic Crisis between Brazil, Norway, and Germany
7.3 Mining Companies and the Environmental Tragedies of the Towns of Mariana and Brumadinho
References
CHAPTER EIGHT
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Brief Digression on the Concept of Sustainability
8.3 Amazonia and Sustainability: A Perfect Marriage
8.4 Fantastic Visions from Amazonia
References
CHAPTER NINE
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Sustainability and the Preservation of Amazonia
References
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Marcílio de Freitas and
Marilene Corrêa da Silva Freitas
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The environmental monitoring of Amazonia by Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research (INPE) confirms that the development policy of Brazil’s new president for this region has caused the fast growth of its deforestation. This deforestation increased 88% from 2018 to 2019 (INPE, 2019). This is a tragedy for Brazil and mankind. It is a political problem in need of an urgent solution. Brazilian society and the international community need to intensify political pressure on the Brazilian government to guarantee protection of Amazonia.
In August 2019, Brazil’s president fired the Director of INPE, due to the disclosure of the increasing rates of deforestation in Amazonia (Quierati, 2019). INPE has been monitoring deforestation in Amazonia since the 1980s. Yet, Jair Bolsonaro claims the Institute has inflated these deforestation rates, and that INPE has an ulterior motive in disclosing them. He also decided that from that time on this technical information would be of strategic interest to the Brazilian State. Nontransparent control of this information by the State, the technical disqualification of INPE, and the disrespect to its Director, Ricardo Galvão, an eminent Brazilian scientist, intensify the uncertainties about the protection of Amazonia. These actions are another political aberration of this government.
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