The (in)effectiveness of environmental agenda in latin american neocolonialism: extractivism as a social ideology and its implications

Abstract

The article offers considerations about extractive neocolonialism and its consequences in the establishment of environmental policies in so-called Third World countries, considering the omnipresence of neoliberal thinking in Western society. The hypothesis put forward is in the sense that the extractive economic model of the 21st century applied in the countries of the global South has a decisive influence on preventing or promoting agendas to contain the global environmental crisis. The hypothetical-deductive method was used, starting from the proposition that anthropocentrism and its logic of domination produce the reductionism of all life and all culture that is not the hegemonic one, producing irreparable damage and assuming unacceptable risks. As results achieved, it was found that the anthropocentrism of European roots promotes a biased reading of Nature to meet projects of absolute domination, over natural elements, over other cultures and over each other. It is necessary to decolonize environmental management practices and implement plural mechanisms to define the environmental agenda for the need to build a new cosmopolitan ethic.