A ECOLOGICAL ETHICS AND THE ECO-COLONIAL TURN: TOWARS THE ECOLOGIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Abstract

The environmental movement in Brazil emerged as a response to the colonial exploitation model and the consequent unbridled degradation of the environment. Since then, the historical normative process of legislative initiatives has re-signified the concept of the environment, in order to systematize and constitutionalize environmental protection. However, due to the current ecological crisis, the narrative of modern Environmental Law is problematized. After all, Law, in itself, is considered a project of Modernity and its regulatory frameworks instrumentalize Nature as a mere resource for the capitalist production system. With this problematization, this article seek to promote reflections on the need to decolonize Environmental Law through the ecologization of Law, that is, through an ecodecolonial theory. Methodologically, it is based on a qualitative research, based on the deductive method and the collection and analysis of bibliographic data as an investigation technique. The results achieved point to the subordination of Nature in Modernity and the need to break with ecological coloniality through the ecologization of Environmental Law.