Direitos da Natureza: caminhos possíveis para a sociedade urbana

Abstract

Notwithstanding the phenomenon of extensive urbanization, the evolution of environmental legislation and the establishment of sustainable development concept since the 1970s, environmental law has been established without really penetrating cities, which remain impermeable to such regulation. Listening to movements that “rexist” on the margins of modern society, however, tells us that another way of relating to the cosmos is possible. In legislative terms, it seems to us that this ontological turn based on the cosmologies of indigenous and other traditional peoples leads us down a path close to that trodden by the new Latin American constitutionalism, in which Nature is subject of rights, but, in Brazil, a path to be drawn from legislation of municipalities towards the desired extensive naturalization of space.