CONCERNS ABOUT NATURE: BETWEEN UTOPIAS AND ANTHROPIC DYSTOPIAS

Abstract

IIt has been a few millennia since human beings saw themselves as a part outside nature. This nature, over time, took on several guises, from being considered as sacred territory to being treated only as a resource for the benefit of man. In the process of desecration, an object-nature was overexploited, which generated impacts, sometimes artistically expressed in dystopias that announced a chaotic future for humanity. That future materialized in 2019 in the form of a virus that gave life to a new global dystopia, SARS-CoV-2. Although with a natural origin, its rapid spread would be linked to anthropic action. The pandemic that it generated in the economy and in the human ways of living, so ingrained to modern capitalism, paved theway for reflections on narratives that deal with other perspectives of collective coexistence, based on common objectives and on the valorization of ancestral wisdoms and the reunion with a nature. Among these possibilities are proposals raised by ethnoconservation and Bem Viver. Perhaps new utopias. This article sought to reflect on this context, tracking bibliographies that address the theme.