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English to Portuguese: The Degrowth Alternative General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Government / Politics
Source text - English Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth” depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth without harming the environment. Ecologizing society, degrowthers argue, is not about implementing an alternative, better, or greener development. It is about imagining and enacting alternative visions to modern growth-based development. This essay explores such alternatives and identifies grassroots practices and political changes for facilitating a transition to a prosperous and equitable world without growth.
The conflict between environment and growth is ever-present. For “developers,” the value of growth is not to be questioned: more mining, drilling, building, and manufacturing is necessary to expand the economy. Against developers stand radical environmentalists and local communities, who are often alone in questioning the inevitability of “a one-way future consisting only of growth.”1 In this opposition to development projects, philosopher Bruno Latour sees a fundamental rejection of modernity’s separation of means and ends.2 Radical environmentalists recognize that ecology, with its focus on connecting humans with one another and with the non-human world, is inherently at odds with growth that separates and conquers.
Translation - Portuguese Tanto o nome quanto a teoria do decrescimento têm como objetivo claro repolitizar o ambientalismo. O desenvolvimento sustentável, e sua reencarnação mais recente, o “crescimento ecológico”, despolitizam as oposições políticas genuínas entre as visões alternativas para o futuro. Eles reduzem os problemas ambientais a algo técnico, prometendo soluções com as quais todos ganham e a meta impossível de perpetuar o crescimento econômico sem prejudicar o ambiente. Transformar a sociedade em uma sociedade ecológica, argumentam os decrescentistas, não se resume a implementar um desenvolvimento alternativo, melhor ou mais “verde”. É preciso imaginar e criar visões alternativas ao desenvolvimento moderno baseado no crescimento. Este ensaio explora essas alternativas e identifica práticas espontâneas e mudanças políticas que facilitariam uma transição para um mundo próspero e igualitário sem o crescimento.
O conflito entre o meio ambiente e o crescimento é onipresente. Para os “desenvolvimentistas”, o valor do crescimento não deve ser questionado: precisamos de mais mineração, perfuração, construção e fabricação para expandir a economia. Contra os desenvolvimentistas estão os ambientalistas radicais e as comunidades locais, quase sempre solitários no questionamento da inevitabilidade de “um futuro de mão única onde há apenas o crescimento.”1 Nessa oposição aos projetos de desenvolvimento, o filósofo Bruno Latour enxerga uma rejeição fundamental à separação moderna entre os meios e os fins.2 Ambientalistas radicais reconhecem que a ecologia, com seu foco na conexão de seres humanos entre si e com o mundo não humano, está naturalmente em conflito com o crescimento que separa e conquista.
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Bachelor's degree - Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
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Years of experience: 21. Registered at ProZ.com: Sep 2005.
I am a Brazilian Portuguese
native speaker with +16 years of Translation experience, working both as an In-house
and Freelance Translator.
I have a solid career as a
technical translator, mainly with developer-related content, software and Help
articles. I also work with Game Localization, and I have already translated
games such as Tales of Berseria, Monster Hunter World/Iceborne, Lego Marvel
Super Heroes 2, Dynasty Warriors 9, and many app games.
I’m used to collaborating
with teams of all sizes.
Other highlights:
· translation of several articles for the 2006
FIFA World Cup;
· Localization of MELL – Microsoft e-Learning
Library;
· Localization of the sports app Strava
· Translation
of several pharmaceutical patents
· As a volunteer, I have been translating social,
political and environmental texts from the website Outras Palavras.
I work with the main CAT
tools available, and I’m always willing to learn about others.
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