Abstract

GARCIA DIAZ, José Eduardo  and  WATANABE, Giselle. Menos pode ser mais: do decrescimento e descomplexificação à complexidade. Linhas Críticas [online]. 2019, vol.25, e19699.  Epub Feb 27, 2019. ISSN 1981-0431.  https://doi.org/10.26512/lc.v25.2019.19699.

In recent times there has been a reductionist discourse that has been gaining ground in a number of publications, conferences and broad debates on the decline and collapse associated with the biophysical boundaries of the environment, which in turn would lead to the depletion of natural resources and climate change. In these approaches it is common to defend that the decrease presupposes a desired and / or inevitable decomplexification of the social system. These assumptions can disseminate a misconception about how to deal with socio-environmental issues while at the same time pointing to structural limitations from a social point of view. Faced with this imminent problem, this essay discusses some aspects of the perspective of complexity based on the assumption that it helps us to understand that the decline does not inevitably mean a decrease in the complexity of the social system. And it shows us how a more creative and critical formation will require interventions that lead to a less linear proposal, based on a paradigm shift and on the way to socially relate.

Keywords : complexity; decrease; critical; education; environment..

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