HERMENEUTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND THE PARADOX OF SUSTAINABILITY

Contemporary society is currently seeking to reverse the severe damage to the planet, and that directly affect our way of life, the global environmental and disorders that bring as a consequence, damage to life forms. This paradigm is due to a perceived social and environmental dichotomized, that even with the emergence of Environmental Education in the 60' s, in its 50 years of operation, some managed to change the vision of man about himself and about this planet, generating a race "green" development still far from ideal, which brought about a false-sustainability, aiming only the preservation and conservation of natural resources. However, with the Hermeneutics allied environmental issues, has launched a new look for the interpretation of the phenomena on this planet, bringing awareness to the genesis of awareness of the real changes necessary to humans and their actions cork planet, uniting society and environment through the environmental Education for taking a sustainable development now, aiming thus environmental quality of life for these and future generations