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Discussions on the Anthropocene have surpassed the limits of geosciences and are incorporated into fundamental themes in the field of environmental humanities. Thus, the present essay aims to evaluate the contradictions of the Anthropocene concept and situate other possible nomenclatures. It employs a narrative revision of theoretical and methodological bibliography concerned with the discussion or alternative proposals of the prevailing lexicon. Face the anthropocentrically universality of the dominant term, it demonstrates that other concepts propose to situate ways of mobilizing against the global environmental crisis. These ideas converge in the necessity of surpassing the exclusive usage of the Anthropocene to refer to the current epoch of eco/geosystem derangements caused by geophagic activities of production. Therefore, it discusses the contributions of many others examples of ‘cenes’, indicating what are the specific critics of each theorization in accordance to a classification in meta-propositions, diagnostic proposals, spatial proposals and postulative proposals. It concludes that the multiple ‘cenes’ present complementary or counternarratives that converge in ways of understanding and situating possible solutions to the pluralization of worlds, places, territories and activisms that rebel against the environmental crisis. Each in its own way, they conform means of cultivating irreverent imaginaries that challenge the modern occidental separation of culture and nature. Consequently, the articulation between multiple ‘cenes’is a pathway towards new cohabitational horizons of earthly survival and livability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The relationship between religions and sustainability allows different approaches, whether by religious diversity or by various initiatives in the field of education, spirituality, and human promotion. In the present article, we chose to present the basic concepts that guide the relationship between sustainability and spirituality, the different emphases that mobilize the environmental engagement of religions and, finally, the most significant religious and inter-religious initiatives from the 1990s to the present. However, this is not a quantitative assessment; rather, it is a way to verify the quality of religious commitment to sustainability, including hermeneutic and theological aspects: the relationship between the Creator, Humanity and Nature; sustainability and ecological virtues; environmental care and spirituality; and, recognition of Mother Earth. The results confirm the ecological awakening of religions and their environmental engagement, marked by the articulation between human ecology and environmental ecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social, political and economic crises, extreme droughts and floods, and rising sea levels are all part of the contemporary environmental crisis. Therefore, this article sought to clarify some causes of this crisis, which are closely related to a type of relationship between human beings and nature, a relationship that arose from the anthropocentric turning point in modernity. It aims to show that a hermeneutics of the Sacred Scriptures based on an anthropocentric perspective is unable to correctly interpret biblical texts. Firstly, it argues that the accounts of creation do not imply the dominion of nature, and its excessive exploitation, by human beings. Then, the article clarifies that the Sabbath system in the Bible, many centuries before environmentalists, already proposed a form of sustainability, ensuring natural resources for future generations and care for the entire creation. Finally, the results of the research point to the need for a new hermeneutic paradigm capable of interpreting the Bible no longer from an anthropocentric perspective, but from a perspective rooted in ecological consciousness. Therefore, it is not simply a superficial hermeneutic change, but a real paradigm shift. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the Industrial Revolution, anthropic intervention on the environment has grown significantly. In addition to the environmental imbalances, this revolution paved the way for an expansion that heavily pressured the planet’s natural resource base. Until the late 1960s, economic theory did not recognize that environmental problems could cause substantial and persistent failures in market economies. From this decade on, the generalization of concern and awareness regarding the environmental damage caused by the vigorous economic and technological development in progress began. The backdrop for new reflections lies in the transformations imposed by the structural and systemic crisis of the dominant production system, especially in the 1970s, with the ecological crisis motivating new accommodations for conventional analyzes or structural ruptures. This essay proposes to bring to the theoretical debate the construction of two important analytical matrices in understanding the economy-nature relationship: studies of neoclassical orientation, with developments after the crisis of the 1970s, and the paradigm of Ecological Economics. Additionally, notes and reflections are made that guide the propositions to face the ongoing climate crisis in the light of these matrices. Bibliographical research was carried out on the subject in question, with the aim of establishing a theoretical framework capable of responding to the objective of the research. Based on this framework, the foundations of neoclassical economics are presented and the subsequent attempt to incorporate environmental issues by the traditional economic mainstream, as well as the perspective of the epistemological rupture and systemic analysis of Ecological Economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay explores how the Brazilian novel Corpos secos (Geisler et al. 2020) employs the discourse of toxicity, condensed in the metaphor of zombification, to imagine what Jason Moore has called the Capitalocene. My analysis of Corpos secos shows how, in its current iteration, capitalism as an ecological regime is pushing against the limits of environmental sustainability, against the limits of what Moore calls Nature, as it seeks continuous growth. In the novel, the coproduction of nature, impelled by greed (a recurring allegory of capitalism), goes terribly wrong, generating toxic biomes and, ultimately, destroying humanity or humanness as zombies take over Brazil. Beyond ecological crisis, in Corpos secos, zombification also becomes a metaphor for the necropolitical dimension inherent in late capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to report an interview of Professor Lúcio José Sobral da Cunha (University of Coimbra) to Professor Jorge Luís de Oliveira Pinto Filho (UFERSA) on the contemporary environmental issue and the role of the University in this debate. For this, the interview was conducted in Coimbra, Portugal during a Post Doctoral Internship of Professor Jorge Pinto Filho under the guidance of Professor Lúcio Cunha. Initially, it addressed the following aspects: environmental and society relations; the environmental crisis; environmental debates; environmental policies and; the dimensions of environmental management and its operationalization. Later, he praised the themes: multidisciplinary research; the role of the university in the 21st century and; emerging university and regional development. Therefore, the interview showed the contemporary environmental issue and the role of the University in this debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article relates the COVID-19 pandemic to deleterious effects of the capitalist mode of production on a global scale, and proposes eco-socialism as an alternative. It affirms that epidemics, like the ecological crisis, are the result of this mode of production that transforms all beings and natural resources into merchandise. It presents eco-socialism as a strategic proposition that seeks to transform not only relations of production and relations of property, but the actual structure of productive forces. It also looks for the transformation of the style, the pattern of consumption, the whole way of life dedicated to consumption, which is the pattern of capitalism. Eco-socialism is not restricted to the perspective of a new civilization, but rather a civilization of solidarity between humans and nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to investigate the general contours of the environmental crisis triggered by the advance of man's domination over nature, based on the basic premises of modern philosophy. The environmental crisis is understood by environmental ethics as the result of the predatory action of modern societies, mediated by the technique and the appropriation of natural goods. In this context of civilizational crisis, ethics and environmental education must contribute to the formation of ecological awareness, which is essential for the preservation of the conditions necessary for the maintenance of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The investigation examined the possibility that newspaper articles about plastic-related problems promote environmental behaviors. A textual analysis was carried out on five news items published in the most widely read digital newspaper in Colombia. Informational elements that explicitly indicated a relationship between human behavior and environmental problems were reviewed. In a second moment, sections were identified that would indicate directly and in detail how to act to reduce or stop said problem. Finally, elements were located that could implicitly encourage changes in behavior. It is concluded that some principles for environmental journalism can be an anthropogenic approach, exhaustive information and an educational function that, in addition to raising awareness, calls for action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper assesses how the law and the 1980 Constitution deal with nature. This view contrasts with the perspective of the philosophies of the indigenous Andean and Mapuche peoples which consider the interrelation, interdependence and reciprocity in the relationships between society and nature. From the standpoint of the environmental problems that science has systematized and that affect the world and the country, this paper puts forward proposals for a new configuration for issues concerning the environment and nature in the Constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the conflicting but potent (dis)encounters among the polymorphic fields of Environmental Education and Cultural Studies. It shows that much research from this articulation has been dedicated to printing erasures in discourses circulating in culture about nature and the environment. But what about when deconstructing is not enough? Recent debates about the environmental crisis, the Anthropocene, climate change and its social developments bring the need for new questions about the connections between culture and environment. Finally, it questions whether the political bias that has marked cultural studies since its emergence may contribute to the search for new radicalisms in Environmental Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I seek to carry out an analysis on the relations of consumption in the scenario of a postmodern individualized society and its impacts on the environment. The research is carried out through: (a) the contextualization of the social characteristic that enables individuals to search for their autonomy through personalization; (b) the study of consumption in a postmodern society endowed with flexibility in the relations between individual and State; (c) the verification of the impacts on the environmental crisis from the consumer relations previously studied. With this, it is revealed as the objective of this article to analyze the correlation between the individual's search for personalization in the induction to consumption and the crisis of the environment. My conclusion points to the fact that the unruly consumer relations end up disposing of nature as a mere stock of natural resources, disregarding it as a whole. It's a qualitative research supported by the hermeneutic method with the use of bibliographical and documentary research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article contributes to the discussion about the current understanding of the ecological behavior of the human being from a relation of utilitarian domination of the environment in contrast to its understanding from the ecological perspective, which responds to a natural model that is part of the relations of its functioning in the ecosystem. In this regard, the paradigm of environmental crisis is discussed, in which such behavior is a serious problem of society. From the authors, the problem would be closely linked to the productive and economic system that promotes the artificialization of the human being, creating false needs that through their consumption ensure the sustainability of the economic model. Critical reflection is proposed from education, towards a new understanding of human behavior whose ecological perspective drives new ecosystemic relations, fundamentally based on collaborative relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article deals with the complexities of the globalized world facing the new position of the nation-state in the protection of human rights. The objective is to analyze the implications of the new world order in the paradigm of the emergence of ecological imbalances from the globalized society, emphasizing the importance of the human rights debate contemporaneous with the modernization of the world, as well as the interactions between man and nature of the risks posed by the numerous environmental crises. The text is developed through the use of the hypothetical-deductive method, together with the bibliographic research technique. It concludes that, in a global risk scenario, social security and cooperation dialogues among nation-states should seek to ensure the protection of environmental assets and resources through local instruments, with a view to ensuring a future for human populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes a research focused on articulating Environmental Education and media studies. By studying some of these discourses we are able to understand that the media starts a relation of power process by fabricating truths, producing meanings and shaping people. We highlight the strong mediatic appeal in the constitution of contemporaneous individuals concerned about human life on our planet. In face of this contemporaneous scenario, we specifically problematize the field of environmental education and discuss some fragments of mediatic discourses which engender ecological subjects. In this text we approach two profoundly divergent discourses - one about the environmental crisis and the other about the permanent encouragement to consumerism. We also question the apocalyptic discourses about the end of the world because of the misuse of natural resources. As a conclusion, the reader is challenged into reflecting about the importance of those sayings in our lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reflection on the state of the Planet and humanity may sound a message repeated and exhausted by the media, but it is extremely necessary. This article aims to discuss the need for a Critical Environmental Education focused on the Latin American South Cone. Based on the discussions, it was noted that in the context of the Southern Cone Latin American, the Environmental Education needs to be considered from a comparison of the experiences of the individual and of the society with the current context, local and global, in order to make it totalizing and your complex approach and lead effectively to a critical thinking and emancipatory about the current environmental scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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