O dever ético e constitucional na atribuição de um valor intrínseco à natureza e o papel pedagógico da jurisdição na formação de uma cultura ambiental autêntica

Abstract

The authentic environmental culture, built on the solid foundations of environmental ethics and ecological literacy provides the spontaneous fulfillment of ethical and constitutional obligation of preserving the environment. The jurisdiction, through paradigm decisions in favor of the environment, indicates the position of the State and thus contributes to the construction of this new authentic environmental culture. Initially, it is considered that the relationship between man and the environment has undergone major transformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The scientific revolution had strong influence on Western countries, which have adopted anthropocentrism replacing theocentrism that until then prevailed. Since then, humans began a trajectory of domination of nature, extracting her everything he believed to be good for humanity, without measuring the consequences and treating the nature as an object. Symptoms indicating the emergence of an environmental crisis began to appear, demonstrating the need for changes to reverse the situation that was installed there. In terms of environmental legislation, Brazil innovated significantly; however, the legal regulations are ineffective. Because of that, necessary reform of thought and the consequent disruption of the mechanistic paradigm still dominant. The way how the humanity interprets the nature needs to be reviewed and overhauled, structured by an ethic and authentic environmental culture, focused in protection, preservation and responsibility to the universe in the present and also in the future. Thus also fulfills the principle of human dignity, which constitutes one of the foundations of the democratic rule of law, expressed on the Constitution of 1988. The state has a constitutional obligation to preserve and maintain the environment. Thus, through the environmental education and the jurisdictional praxis, the environmental pedagogy completes and spreads throughout society. The resulting decisions of the courts and the constitutional court demonstrate in practice how much contribute to build an environmental culture that involves both the ethics and the fulfillment of the legal obligation to preserve and maintain ecologically balanced environment, all spontaneously and above all, authentic.