Educação ambiental e o modo de produção capitalista: tensões e contradições

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on the relation between environmental education and the capitalist mode of production, presenting important points regarding the tensions and contradictions thatare posed by the current mode of production, and how it interferes in environmental destruction.This is a bibliographical study, with a qualitative approach, which is based on studies related tothe theme, essential for the work elaboration. Some theoretical sources were studied, such as: The writings of Reigota (2012) about environmental education as political education, and the contributions of Paro (1996) and Viana (2016), with their critical analyses on the capitalist mode of production. The work is divided into two chapters: in the first one, the relationship between man and nature is discussed from the conceptions of traditional people and the marketissues that permeate this relationship; in the second chapter, reflects on environmental education as political education and environmental destruction caused by the unbridled development of the capitalist mode of production. From the research results, it is understood the environmental education as an essential approach to develop critical reflections on the attitudes and actions that permeate society, in addition to understanding its importance in building alternatives for coexistence with dignity aimed at the common good in society.