href="#litres_trial_promo">3.3 Democracy and the Universal Political System
3.4 Environmental Utopia: New Global Nature Contract and Amazonia
3.5 Social Utopia: New Worldwide Social Contract
3.6 Ethical Utopia: A Pluricultural Ethical Contract
3.7 The Future: The Sustainability of Utopias
Chapter Four: Science, Religion, Amazonia, and Sustainability
4.2 Relevant Scenarios for Science Education
4.3 Science, Religion, and Sustainability: Contradictions and Ruptures
4.4 Sustainability: Amazonia, the Myth of Immortality and the Sacred
Chapter Five: Nature of Sustainability and Amazonia: Brief Analysis
5.2 Sustainability: Foundations and Principles
5.3 Sustainability of Nature: Historical Elements
5.4 Sustainability of Development: New Constituent Elements
5.5 Environment, Amazonia, and Sustainability: Guidelines and Propositions
Chapter Six: Predatory Development in Brazilian Amazonia
6.2 Amazonia and Development: Contours and Methodological Approach
6.3.1 Predatory Development Projects in Amazonia: Illustrative Elements
Chapter Seven: Politics to Service of Non-sustainability and Amazonia
7.2 Destruction of Amazon Fund: The Diplomatic Crisis between Brazil, Norway, and Germany
7.3 Mining Companies and the Environmental Tragedies of the Towns of Mariana and Brumadinho
Chapter Eight: Nuances of Sustainability: Fantastic Visions from Amazonia
8.2 Brief Digression on the Concept of Sustainability
8.3 Amazonia and Sustainability: A Perfect Marriage
8.4 Fantastic Visions from Amazonia
Chapter Nine: Preservation of Amazonia: Commitments for Us All
9.2 Sustainability and the Preservation of Amazonia
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The objective of this book is to disseminate and popularize Amazonia’s importance for people and mankind. It also presents denunciations on the destructive interventions made by Brazil’s new president on the use and protection policies of Amazonia.
We hope that readers will increase their efforts in Amazonia’s defense and protection, at all times, in all places. Its material and symbolic importance for Brazil and the world goes beyond the Brazilian state’s political interests. Its geography, history, and cultural and theological significance are intertwined with universal history.
Through a prospective study, structural issues that affect Amazonia’s ecological and cultural complexity and its globalization are analyzed in this book. Its insertion in world geopolitics permeated by sustainability is presented through macro-scenarios. The use of macro-scenarios in the description and analysis of the problems presented in this book open the way to a more consistent and systemic interdisciplinary approach. What is lost in detail in the analysis of the focal problems is gained in integration and interpretation. As a result, we have book’s better thematic unity. This methodological strategy allows us to identify and apprehend the heuristic range of the book’s proposal, and its main contributions more quickly. It is organized in nine chapters.
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The first is a brief retrospective study on its political geography, environmental scenarios, and links with the world. Some of the scenarios predicted for the environment, Amazonia, and sustainability are reviewed,
