A ética do respeito como alternativa viável na promoção da sustentabilidade ambiental

Abstract

This research aims to understand how environmental sustainability in areas of rural settlements can be made possible on the basis of ethics that seeks respect for sociobiodiversity. Therefore, we intend to anchor our study in theoretical reflections on ethics, sustainability and environment, with special attention to the philosophical thought of Albert Schweitzer, which prioritizes the ethics of reverence for life turned not only to humans but to all forms of existing life including Nature - an Ethics of Respect. We aim to prove that there is an ethic of implicit respect of the settlers in land of agrarian reform projects linked to Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), as an alternative to environmental sustainability in all its surroundings, keeping legally protected areas, such as: legal reserve environment, conserving legally protected areas, such as: Legal Reserve, Conservation Unit and Permanent Preservation Areas. The study was philosophical theoretical character, and the empirical field research conducted in fifteen settlements in the South Central region of the State of Sergipe, in the municipalities of Tobias Barreto, Poço Verde, Simão Dias, Pinhão and Macambira. Settlers underwent semistructured interviews concerning environmental activities in the settlement, whose answers led us to consider that there is an innate respect Ethics thus demonstrating its viability to environmental sustainability site. We find in each setting an ethic of respect internalized, fostered by the correlation of reverence and direct dependence on nature, since they perceive the importance of the ecosystem in their surroundings, helping them to survive collectively when mediated by the formation of self-awareness process leading to the ethical way of mutual respect in promoting sociobiodiversity