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“Como imaginar uma solução verdadeira, isto é, radical, para o problema da crise ecológica, sem mudar, do vinho para a água, o modo atual de produção e de consumo, gerador de desigualdades gritantes e de estragos catastróficos? Como impedir a degradação crescente do meio ambiente sem romper com uma lógica econômica que só conhece a lei do mercado, do lucro e da acumulação? Quer dizer, sem um projeto utópico de transformação social, que submeta a produção a critérios extraeconômicos, democraticamente escolhidos pela sociedade? E como imaginar semelhante projeto sem integrar, como um dos seus principais eixos, uma nova atitude em relação à natureza, respeitosa do meio ambiente? O "Princípio Responsabilidade" (de Hans Jonas) é incompatível com um conservacionismo tremente, que se recusa a questionar o sistema econômico atual, e que qualifica de "irrealista" qualquer busca por uma alternativa.”

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Book:O que é ecossocialismo?
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“The reality is that the major environmental problems we face today - of which climate change is only one - cannot be solved by means of technological or market-based solutions while keeping existing social relations intact. Rather, what is needed most is a transformation in social relations: in community, culture, and economy, in how we relate to each other as human beings, and how we relate to the planet. What is needed, in other words, is an ecological revolution.”

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Book:What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
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“The point here is not that emissions don't matter. It is a call for a shift in priorities. On the policy level, we need to shift toward protecting and healing ecosystems on every level, especially the local. On a cultural level, we need to reintegrate human life with the rest of life, and bring ecological principles to bear on social healing. On the level of strategy and thought, we need to shift the narrative toward life, love, place, and participation. Even if we abandoned the emissions narrative, if we do these things emissions will surely fall as well.”

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Book:Climate: A New Story
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“Whether or not it is true that climate change exacerbates other environmental problems, the rush to name a unitary cause of a complex problem should give us pause. The pattern is familiar. It is none other than war thinking, which also depends on identifying a unitary cause of a complex problem. That cause is called the enemy, and the solution is to defeat the enemy.”

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Author:Charles Eisenstein
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