O direito do cidadão-consumidor à informação e a preservação ambiental na sociedade de risco

Abstract

The human does not buy products, he became one. Thus, the interaction of the characters of the consumption relation, several questions are erected: Exist any risk to humans or nature? What stimulus induced humans to consume? People are surrounded by the characters of the consumer society, in which ties objective and subjective are erected between humans and artifacts, being diverse influences motivated the act of consumption, noting that the information, understood as advertising, is one of them. All are potential consumers, because advertising harass any citizen, encouraging all of them to consume. Appears the citizenconsumer. Along this line, it is the Right attempting to regulate this fact, harmonizing interests and prerogatives. In parallel, visualizes which risks arise as a spectrum above of citizens, consumers, being the chain of production/consumption of its main motivators. However, by the consumption acculturation and construction of signs/meanings tenuous, most of the population does not reflect on the extent of the act of consumption, relegating to the background the reflection on the existence of risk. Taking as a basis the Law 8.078/80 - Consumer Code - and environmental legislation, see which there are connections between the consumer and the environment: both are diffuse. Thus, tied to consumption relation and the perception of the principle of information comes the reflection on the environmental information, which in theory gives citizens-consumers, satisfactory data for decision making context situation, not based solely on extrinsic conviction about a particular product. Therefore, the legal relations of consumption, direct and indirect, are tied to the prospect of broad and contextualized information, stimulating, among other things, ecological awareness. This bond can motivate the achievement of sustainable consumption causing an impacted positively on the environment and on society. Are presents several proposals for the use of environmental information as a mechanism to encourage the preservation of natural resources. Also, note that there is an ongoing change in the concept of the state, which ceases to be understood only as a democratic state to be understood as a Democratic State Environmental Law. The information, in addition to being understood as a mechanism to induce consumption also becomes an element of motivation for reflection citizen-consumers as to the ampleness of the production/consumption and in particular on the individual act of consumption. And of all a conclusion: environmental information can elicit changes in attitudes, however, in parallel, it is necessary which the citizen-consumers rethink your customs and habits. Otherwise, the prospect of environmental information will also be transformed into cliché, as already occurs with certain themes, both of Consumer Law how the Environmental Law.