Grande capital, agronegócio e a degradação da Amazônia brasileira: um compêndio histórico-teórico para a compreensão do porvir

Abstract

Currently, in Brazil, the primary sector and large capital come together as so-called engines of the national economy, at the cost of increasing devastation and loss of biodiversity in biomes such as the Amazon Forest, in addition to the continuous loss of human rights among the people who live there and depend on it. This project proposes to investigate the main antecedents and implications of the recent movement to accelerate the exploitation/spoliation of vital resources present in the Brazilian Amazon, practiced by the current government of Jair Bolsonaro, with the emblematic participation of former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles in the execution of the project of dispossession and advance of capitalism in one of its last unexplored frontiers. As a background for understanding this process, we seek to work on concepts such as Dependence, Neo-extractivism, Financialization of Capitalism and the International Division of Labor, in order to link structural variables, typical of the dynamics of capitalist accumulation, to the gradual advance of spoliation in the Amazon Forest. This is an explanatory research, which will use a hypothetical-deductive approach and, procedurally, it will consult the vast bibliography involving the topics covered., as well as data, indicators and legislation related to the topic investigated.