Speeches ecologists in a process of environmental licensing in Guanabara Bay region

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on some of the main expressions of environmental advocacy expressed by participating social actors in a conflict environment. To this end, we analyze the conflicts that occurred due to the troubled process of environmental licensing of the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro (Comperj), in 2007, from the perspective of its different actors and their discourses in dispute. Analytically these actors and their discourses are associated with the three main headquarters environmentalism, according to the classification developed by Martinez Alier (2007), which is the worship of wildlife, the gospel of eco-efficiency and environmentalism of the poor. Methodologically, the work is the result of ethnographic monitoring of the environmental licensing process, and the developments in the environmental field in the region. The main results of the work we could notice the games covenant, toward and away from the arguments and speeches ecologists, showing that such talks should not be seen as fixed and immutable essences.