A ROUPA NOVA DO REI: ECONOMIA VERDE ENTRE INOVAÇÃO E CONSERVAÇÃO – UMA LEITURA CRÍTICA A PARTIR DE KARL POLANYI

In the context of the 2008 crisis, Green Economy (GE) is promoted and encouraged by United Nations institutions as a path to sustainable development. In addition to driving economic growth, GE would make possible to reduce poverty and ensure the preservation of natural resources. The present essay draws on the work of Karl Polanyi to criticize this discourse. Market society is reproduced by the subordination of human and nature to economic self-regulation, which by definition is antagonistic to life. Under the aegis of the market, man and nature live within the threshold of suppression. Social and environmental sustainability depends upon a shift towards economic subsistence oriented by the principles of reciprocity, redistribution and exchange. But GE not only keeps intact the mercantile pattern but also encourages it.