Enfrentamento da questão ambiental em zona de sacrifício : a lógica mitigante no caso da cidade do Rio Grande (RS)

Abstract

The present work aimed the understanding of how the confront of the environmental issue in the context of economic contemporary development in which the city of Rio Grande (RS) is inserted has been developing. The research consists of a qualitative case study and the data approach used the Discourse Textual Analysis. Interviews were carried out using a semi-structured plot with six agents involved in the development and implementation of an environmental protection policy in the city, in order to discover the protection model generated from the action of these agents, especially based on the work of the State Public Prosecutor's Office and City Department of Environment. The research sample was intentionally chosen. The study was guided by using Edgar Morin’s Complexity Paradigm, which is applied in order to broaden the view concerning the environmental issue, using complexity instruments to deal with issues that are complex. In the latest discussions on complexity, we based our study on the concepts brought by Enrique Leff in the analysis of the dynamics that develop in the relationship between economic development and assurance for the environment as a fundamental right, watching the rationality used in the construction of environmental knowledge. The research identified an environmental protection model developed from the capitalist rationality, forming a culture that weakens the confrontation of environmental issues, when dealing with conflicts through a mitigating logic and social invisibility (environmental). Without identifying the real impact of the development process on the city's sacrifice zones, it adopts a conduct of incriminating poverty for the environmental problems, directly related to the population increase resulting from the economic development. Na adoção desse modelo deixam de questionar o modelo produtivo instalado numa lógica de exploração. By adopting such model, the production model installed in a logic of exploitation is no longer questioned.