1152/2012 - A Insustentável Leveza do Alumínio: impactos socioambientais da inserção do Brasil no mercado mundial de alumínio primário The Unbearable Lightness of Aluminum: social and environmental impacts of Brazil‘s REPLACEion in the global primary aluminum
• ALEN BATISTA HENRIQUES - Henriques, AB. - itamarati de minas, MG - ESCOLA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA SÉRGIO AROUCA - <alenhenriques@gmail.com>
Coautor(es):
• MARCELO FIRPO SOUZA PORTO - Porto, M. F. S. - ESCOLA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE PÚBLICA SÉRGIO AROUCA - <marcelo.firpo@ensp.fiocruz.br>
Área Temática:
Saúde e Ambiente
Resumo:
O presente artigo procura discutir a produção de alumínio no Brasil e seus impactos socioambientais e à saúde pública, pois nos últimos anos vem se transformando em mais uma importante commodity metálica para manter positiva a balança comercial nacional. Os impactos da cadeia produtiva do alumínio colocam em xeque a ideia de crescimento sustentável difundido pelos grupos empresariais que atuam no setor. O artigo defende a tese de que a inserção do Brasil no mercado global do alumínio faz parte de uma nova configuração da Divisão Internacional do Trabalho – DIT, cujas atividades econômicas poluentes e altamente dependentes de energia, como o caso do alumínio vêm se deslocando para nações periféricas ou emergentes, onde muitas vezes as legislações são menos austeras, do mesmo modo como são menos influentes os movimentos ambientalistas e as reivindicações das populações atingidas nos territórios afetados em seus direitos à saúde, ao ambiente saudável e à cultura. A competitividade desta commodity é garantida no mercado internacional, a partir da produção de externalidades como os danos ao ambiente, desmatamentos, emissões de gases do efeito estufa e de cenários de injustiça ambiental, como também nos empreendimentos de construção de barragens hidrelétricas que expõem comunidades tradicionais a situações que envolvem a perca de seus territórios.
Palavras-chave:
Indústria de alumínio primário
Impactos ambientais
Justiça Ambiental
Environmental Justice
Abstract:
This article discusses the aluminum production in Brazil and its socio-environmental impacts and public health, and in recent years is becoming a more important commodity metal to maintain a positive trade balance nationally. The impacts of aluminum production chain put into question the widespread idea of sustainable growth by business groups that operate in the sector. The article defends the thesis that the REPLACEion of Brazil in the global aluminum market is part of a new configuration of the International Division of Labor - DIT, whose economic activities polluting and highly energy dependent, as the case of aluminum have been moving to nations peripheral or emerging countries, where often the laws are less harsh, so they are less influential environmental movements and the claims of the affected populations in the territories affected in their rights to health, healthy environment and culture. The competitiveness of this commodities guaranteed in the international market, from the production of externalities such as environmental damage, deforestation, emissions of greenhouse gases and scenarios of environmental injustice, as well as enterprises in the construction of hydroelectric dams that expose traditional communities to situations involving the loss of their territories.
The Unbearable Lightness of Aluminum: social and environmental impacts of Brazil‘s REPLACEion in the global primary aluminum
Resumo (abstract):
This article discusses the aluminum production in Brazil and its socio-environmental impacts and public health, and in recent years is becoming a more important commodity metal to maintain a positive trade balance nationally. The impacts of aluminum production chain put into question the widespread idea of sustainable growth by business groups that operate in the sector. The article defends the thesis that the REPLACEion of Brazil in the global aluminum market is part of a new configuration of the International Division of Labor - DIT, whose economic activities polluting and highly energy dependent, as the case of aluminum have been moving to nations peripheral or emerging countries, where often the laws are less harsh, so they are less influential environmental movements and the claims of the affected populations in the territories affected in their rights to health, healthy environment and culture. The competitiveness of this commodities guaranteed in the international market, from the production of externalities such as environmental damage, deforestation, emissions of greenhouse gases and scenarios of environmental injustice, as well as enterprises in the construction of hydroelectric dams that expose traditional communities to situations involving the loss of their territories.
Henriques, AB., Porto, M. F. S.. A Insustentável Leveza do Alumínio: impactos socioambientais da inserção do Brasil no mercado mundial de alumínio primário. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2012/jul). [Citado em 23/01/2025].
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