Environmental sustainability

a necessary debate about consumption and environmental rationality

Abstract

Globalization, the internet and, notably, global warming and the water crisis present themselves as transfigurations of a globalized society of a dimension never experienced by humanity, which demands that current and future generations deepen the emerging debate about the future of humanity and of the planet. To this end, economic models of production/market are necessarily included in the debate, as they are vectors of human action as a whole, notably the use of natural resources. Thus, the debate about the unsustainability of the capitalist economic model, based on consumption, and environmental sustainability, based on environmental rationality, to face this crucial and complex moment of humanity, is paramount, given that the worldview of the original peoples, with its sustainable interaction with nature, and environmental education, can contribute to an economic model based on environmental rationality and consequent sustainability of the planet.