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According to Kopnina (2012), the ethical discussion in environmental and sustainable development education programs has not escaped dominant political ideologies such as neoliberalism. These ideologies have played inhibiting roles in democratic deliberation to create a situational or contextual hierarchy of environmental values. They impose a communicative deliberation that is detrimental to pluralist ethical problematization in favor of an anthropocentric ethical approach at the expense of ecocentric or biocentric values. The sources of this depoliticization of the environmental ethical question are identified by Sauvé (2011), at the educational level, in an economic globalization program claiming a focal role for economic growth in resolving environmental and social problems. In this program, education is considered as “an engine of globalization” responding primarily to a mission of economic development through the development of human resources or human capital.