By neglecting George Perkins Marsh, we only have Paulo Freires utopia

Authors: Lima Nakaoshi I, Rojas Vasques F and Fortunato I*

DOI: 10.23880/abca-16000183

Volume 4, Issue 2

Abstract

This paper seeks to demonstrate that the environmental issues were pointed out by George Perkins Marsh at least one hundred years before it become a part of the global agenda in the 1970s. As per our research we can we can clearly state that the negligence given to his book “Man and Nature”, in which he has proven that aggression to nature meant aggression to human life, became responsible for the serious environmental problems that we have today. If a return in time is unlikely to prevent industrial capitalism from following its rite of destruction-production-oppression-consumption all we have is the hope that all of this can be mitigated in some way. We bet on environmental education, mainly mediated by hope and utopia very well outlined by the patron of Brazilian education, Paulo Freire. This article is an essay in which we weave together neglect with hope.

Keywords: Environmental Education; Man and Nature; Oppressor-Oppressed

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