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O Apelo Às Mudanças Climáticas Pela Preservação Ambiental
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5790744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniela De Souza Onça (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/d.8.2007.tde-05112007-121023 |
| OpenAlex | W1544952616 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
TuáàÜtvàThis research aims to investigate the construction of the modern discourse involving global climate change.Such discourse, which we can observe in different kinds of publications, events and attitudes, generally proclaims the notion that global warming is already a self-evident reality, with its devastating effects worldwide, with a progressive warming and man-induced, via the indiscriminate launching of pollutants in the atmosphere.This way, passionate appeals for the planet's health preservation and the reduction of pollutants emission are made, otherwise we will suffer serious consequences in our lives, for example in agriculture, water supply, thermal comfort and dissemination of diseases.However, in the scientific community, instead of what we may think at first sight, there is no consensus about causes, consequences and even the reality of global warming.It is constructed, this way, a kind of discourse which takes hypothesis for certainties, indoctrinates by fear and, above all, does not break with the basis of the worldview that engendered environmental degradation.It idealizes the possibility of harmony between society and nature but, at the same time, conserves the same kind of rationality regarding mitigation measurements and keeps its utilitarianism -we must protect the environment because man needs natural resources to survive.In a word, it "plays the enemy's game", since the appeal to the serious consequences of global warming is powerful and has greater possibilities of aggregating partisans and producing some practical mitigation effect.We believe that, although this kind of attitude may work, this is not the best way to construct an authentic ecological consciousness because it keeps basically unchanged the criticized mentality.We suggest, thus, the construction of an ethical argument, to wit, the one about intrinsic value of life and the need of respecting it, instead of insisting on a utilitarian and frightening argument.The protection of nature does not need false climatic premises to support it, as its necessity is self-evident
Appeal · Art · Climate change · Environmental ethics · Global warming · Harmony (Music · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Rationality · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Risk Perception and Management · Science and Climate Studies · Ecology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |