Marxists and the environment

In the last three decades of the 20th century, there was a worldwide awareness of the seriousness of environmental imbalances. But this did not mean a single approach, on the contrary, a range of sometimes very divergent positions emerged. Radical ecologists, moderate ecologists, neo-Malthusians, en...

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Main Author: Foladori, Guilermo
Format: Online
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas 2001
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Online Access:https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/cma/article/view/19632
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Summary:In the last three decades of the 20th century, there was a worldwide awareness of the seriousness of environmental imbalances. But this did not mean a single approach, on the contrary, a range of sometimes very divergent positions emerged. Radical ecologists, moderate ecologists, neo-Malthusians, environmentalists, etc. they reflected a different way of seeing the relationship between society and nature. However, most of them agreed that Marxism had a productivist approach, similar to that of the cornucopians (defenders of unlimited abundance and progress) that was oblivious to the needs of a more harmonious relationship with nature.
ISSN:0104-9321