Environmental Issues and the New Geopolitics of Nations: Impacts and Pressures on the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

In recent decades, environmental issues have become key topics for discussing
the Interstate Capitalist System for reasons of a political and ideological nature that go beyond ecology. In the relationship between the advanced industrialized countries and peripheral countries the former, as represented by their economic corporations and socio-political organizations, try to impose on the rest of the world new patterns of economic development, such as sustainable development and green economy. This perspective sheds light on pressures and ambiguities present in environmental politics for the Brazilian Amazon within the current Interstate Capitalist System. It argued here that when one looks beyond the rhetoric little has actually changed in the Western development model. The sustainability demanded by the global community for the Amazon, is anchored solely in the environmental and climate dimension and does not take the regional population into account thus ignoring their economic difficulties and 
environmental relationships. Without doubt the Amazon has become a global ecological symbol but the question is for whom?