Educação ambiental em busca do “paraíso perdido”

Abstract

The need of instituting the environmental dimension in the school curricula introduces a debate between two political tendencies: that of environmentalists who think that sustainable society has natural richness as a goal; and that which considers nature as means for human life. The first concept is based on organic metaphors; the most highlighted one is that a healthy environment contributes to the body's health, and that environmental problems are related to infirmities. This concept states that human needs are only the vital ones; the others are variations, without any hierarchy (TIME CYCLE). At the same time it sustains that greater productivity, is needed. A hierarchy is established between archaic (TIME ARROW) ways of producing and environmentally healthy ones.