O rompimento da barragem Fundão-MG: questão ambiental e crimes industriais sob a lógica capitalista

Abstract

The discussion fomented through this paper aims to realize a critical analyzes of “environmental issue” to beyond its phenomenal aspects, thus revealing its intrinsic relationship with “social issue” while parts of a unique process inside capitalism dynamics, product of the social relationships reproduction in totality. Therefore, there will be a resource to authors who catch the present debate, evidencing how growing nature degradation watched is related to capital reproduction logic inside contemporaneous capitalism – which has been determining the cadency and environmental destruction degrees. The particular expression of “environmental crimes”, happened and aggravated worldwide, will be object of analyzes of this process in concentricity, especially from case study about “Fundão” mineral tailing dam incident, from Samarco S.A. company, in Mariana district, Minas Gerais.