Industrialization of the Amazon, a dialectical antagonism
Industrialization of the Amazon, a dialectical antagonism

Author(s): Yuri Sandoval-Montes, Gema Elvira Ríos-Araníbar
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Amazonia; industrialization; dialectical antagonism; sustainable development
Summary/Abstract: The Amazon as everyone’s ecosystem, presents a breadth of wealth of natural resources beyond simple tropical forests, and although it is pointed out that it is a world heritage site, not everyone makes decisions about its use. In fact, its industrialization from its“ colonization” is greatly affecting the entire planet as the agricultural frontier has been constantly expanding for the purposes of agribusiness, biofuels, livestock and transgenic agriculture. In antagonistic opposition there is the idea of industrializing the Amazon rainforest, reducing the great breadth and variety of ecosystems, homogenizing production systems, reducing diversity and generalizing the extractive agribusiness under a capitalist and globalizing development model, without considering the environmental importance of this great global ecosystem. This presentation aims to dialectically analyse this antagonistic model in order to determine to what extent the sustainability of this exploitative model can be guaranteed and if it is actually the model that is needed in this millennium to guarantee the socio-natural subsistence of this great world ecosystem.

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