FROM THE ASHES OF THE AMAZON TO THE ADVANCE OF THE BOIADA: The institutionalized degradation of the environment during a COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

 The present work consists of a theoretical essay on the environmental issue, dealing with the paradigms and paradoxes of consumer society, given the natural limitations, which are consistent with the available amount of a resource or with the impacts of maintaining economic activity. Thus, it talks through data, information and conceptions, in face of the inability to sustain the predatory use of natural assets in favor of fulfilling needs, whether natural or constituted. Listing the movements of capital and private interest in favor of maintaining its profitability and systematic, expressed through the institutional dismantling of inspection, control and combating acts harmful to the environment, granting the pandemic period great setbacks and damage to nature as one all. In nominees, the mobilization of the law and its operators in favor of the protection of the general interest conceived in the figures of environmental protection and sustainable development models. Thus, this article seeks to explore the impossibility of maintaining and expanding consumption, given the neoliberal facet and its self-regulating and individualistic discursive, delimiting itself to the national territory, especially the Amazon case, which is the forest world, is present in a large part of the Brazilian territory and is in growing threat.