Instrumentos jurídicos e econômicos de enfrentamento da degradação ambiental gerada pela prática da obsolescência programada na sociedade de consumo

Abstract

The research shows an analysis of programmed obsolescence practice as motivational tool consumption in modern society. Introduced furtively in the economic system, planned obsolescence is responsible for a number of environmental problems, in particular the increase in the amount of solid waste disposed. Approached from the perspective of risk society, which highlights lack of knowledge of the risks boundaries made by man, the need for consumption and capital accumulation are also in the text as a complementary theoretical base. The over accumulation crisis and the environmental implications arising from the capital flow in line with the relentless pursuit of economic growth without limitation causes a burden to the environment, especially the entropic degradation. This situation despised by much of the economic schools, except for the school of ecological economics that deals with the economy as an open cycle the input and output of materials and energy, unlike conventional schools of the economy. With the solid foundation consumerist system, which operates in dissonance ecological assumptions, it appears the planned obsolescence strategy, which favors mass production of goods at the expense of sustainability, including the practice of obsolescence scheduled between the responsible for high rates of PIB of a nation and the maintenance of the capitalist system in our consumer society. Starting with the objective of verifying the interaction of legal and economic sciences, this paper presents the contribution of the school of ecological economics, later adding to discuss the legal elements which make it possible to confront the practice of planned obsolescence, such as the National Policy Solid waste and from another perspective, environmental education.