AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política
AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política tem origem na constituição da Rede de Pesquisadores em Geografia (Socio)Ambiental — RP-G(S)A —, composta por docentes de diversas instituições brasileiras de ensino superior. A partir de uma preocupação em valorizar os estudos de cunho ambiental, integrando conhecimentos sobre a natureza e a sociedade, a RP-G(S)A tem como foco a Geografia Ambiental, entendendo-se “ambiente” de maneira ampla: sem reduzir o conceito ao ambiente natural ou “meio ambiente”. Além disso, há um esforço para oferecer uma contribuição ao campo interdisciplinar da Ecologia Política. Sabendo da importância de um periódico científico para agregar reflexões, resultados de pesquisas e outros trabalhos a partir do enfoque da Geografia Ambiental, a proposta de criação de AMBIENTES: Revista de Geografia e Ecologia Política tem como objetivo fundamental incentivar a divulgação científica dessa importante área de pesquisa.
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Geografia Ambiental: Quando o charme é atributo da ciência
Resenha do livro "Geografia Ambiental: Raízes, Seiva, frutos e sementes" SOUZA, Marcelo Lopes de. Geografia Ambiental: Raízes, Seiva, frutos e sementes. Rio de Janeiro: Consequência, 2025.
“Foi só a gente se entender, que o SNUC passou no Congresso”
The vulnerability of the Panará indigenous people to contamination of surface waters
The purpose of this article is to analyze the socio-environmental risks linked to water resources in the Panará indigenous land. The results show the vulnerability of the Panará people in relation to the position of the indigenous land in the sub-basin and the context of land use and occupation in the area. The research started from the analysis of two episodes of alteration of the water quality of the Iriri River, registered by Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and which are still being monitored in research at the Environmental Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in addition to the observation and reports of the indigenous people. During a field trip, five leaders were interviewed. Subsequently, the transcription of the recordings was analyzed qualitatively. In addition, ethnographic research conducted with the Panará people by two authors allows us to address aspects of the group's life and its relationship with the river, as well as to point out how this people was the victim of State violence that needs to be redressed. Spatial data on land ownership structures, irregular occupations and deforestation in the sub-basin area up to 2023 were spatialized to support the analysis. It concluded on the need for the Brazilian State to prioritize the concept of basin and sub hydrographic basin in the demarcation and protection of indigenous lands, revealed that public lands, not designated, are part of the problem, resulting from the neglect of the State in relation to the uncontrolled use and occupation of public lands in the union. Keywords: Demarcation of indigenous lands; Iriri river drainage area; Land use and occupation.
The socionature of waters on urban landscape: Reflections from cases in Juiz de Fora (MG)
During the process of urban expansion, helocrene, limnocrene and rheocrene water systems become hybrids between the natural and the social. The logic of spatial reproduction to meet urban needs leads to alterations in the structure and dynamics of waterscapes, which materialize in adaptations imposed by land use and cover patterns, governed by capital flows. The transformation of hydrological systems into water supply sources, the impermeabilization of surfaces, and the obliteration of water bodies alter hydrogeographical forms and processes through socio-natural interrelations. Medium-sized cities, such as Juiz de Fora (MG), exhibit specificities related to the transformations of urban and periurban hydrological systems, mediated by distinct logics of land appropriation and spatial reproduction. In this perspective, the aim is to identify the transformations of hydrological systems in the periurban area of Juiz de Fora, based on the analysis of orbital data, including satellite images and field records, interpreted through the lenses of Hydrogeography in dialogue with Political Ecology. The results show that helocrene and limnocrene environments have been practically hidden from the urban landscape, while rheocrene environments are severely altered. In periurban areas, the multiplicity of actors is reflected in varying degrees of artificialization of water systems, with greater variability in water uses and a higher diversity of waterscapes.
Ambientalismos corporativos: Captura, instrumentalização e controle sócio-espacial
Cinza que te quero verde: As várias faces do “empresarialismo ecológico”
Nosso marco é ancestral: Direito à luta territorial e à preservação ambiental no Território Indígena de Taunay/Ipegue
Capitalism and the politics of resignation
Anthropologists since the 1990s have paid greater attention to the state and governmentality than to one of the most consequential forms of power in our time, the corporation. The lack of attention to corporations is especially problematic when the harm they cause is readily apparent and substantial. We propose to reorient the study of power in anthropology to focus on the strategies corporations use in response to their critics and how this facilitates the perpetuation of harm. We identify three main phases of corporate response to critique: denial, acknowledgement and token accommodation, and strategic engagement. In case studies of the tobacco and mining industries, we show how corporate responses to their critics protect these industries from potential delegitimization and allow them to continue operating in favorable regulatory environments. Finally, we connect these corporate strategies to pervasive feelings of discontent about the present and the perceived inability to change the future. Although corporations usually benefit from the politics of resignation, we argue that widespread dissatisfaction with corporate practices represents an important starting point for social change. Keywords: Corporation; Power; Subjectivity.
Environmental Managerialism: A dimension of corporate environmentalization analyzed through ESG practices
Environmental Managerialism: A dimension of corporate environmentalization analyzed through ESG practices Abstract This study will examine to what extent the transformations in the functioning of managerial policies and technologies induce changes in the relationship between corporate and state sectors regarding environmental issues, as well as the social, spatial, and economic repercussions. Environmental managerialism discusses the strategies and tactics of capturing and subordinating discussions and practices about nature – and its transformations – to market intentions, through trained exercises and techniques for its control and instrumentalization, or also, its concealment. Environmental managerialism addresses the configuration that a private model of managing the capitalist enterprise takes when incorporating environmental issues. This will interfere with and produce political forms – as well as "public policies" – of administration and command, competent and necessary for its intrusion into such a broad and diverse object. The text will discuss the practices of the ESG guidelines of a large steel company. To achieve the objectives of the paper, we conducted a literature review on authors who studied managerial formats and devices. We covered national and international publications, considering part of the critical literature on this subject. We researched reports and secondary data produced by public and private institutions. We qualitatively understood the application and repercussions of the ESG guidelines implemented by the company Ternium Brasil. Key words: ESG; Managerialism; Environmentalization; Environmental Managerialism; Financialization; Ternium.
Offshore wind energy and feminist political ecology in the global South: Research perspectives focused on small-scale women fishers
This methodological essay discusses the relevance of analyzing the impacts of offshore wind energy on the livelihoods of artisanal fisherwomen and shellfish gatherers. It emphasizes the potential of qualitative methodologies, particularly Social Cartography and the construction of the SWOT matrix, to broaden the understanding of women’s fishing activities in marine territories. Grounded in concepts from political ecology with a gender perspective, the study highlights dimensions that are often rendered invisible in the processes of implementing energy technologies in Brazil. Thus, it seeks to contribute to the debate on energy justice and intersectionality by advocating for the integration of gender studies into the Geography of Energy. Furthermore, it underscores the need to incorporate women into public policies related to the expansion of renewable energies, ensuring that their experiences and practices are recognized at every stage of the process. Finally, the essay analyzes the potential of participatory methods in the collection of qualitative data, proposing approaches that foster social and environmental justice in the face of the transformations advanced by the energy sector. Keywords: SWOT Matrix; Social Cartography; Shellfish Gatherers; Energy Transition; Northeast Brazil.
The agribusiness incursion in education: An analysis of the environmental discourse of the Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio (ABAG)
The analysis of the insertion of agribusiness in education, considering its intentions and effects, is the central objective of our investigations. In this article, the analytical focus focused on the environmental dimension of the discourse in this sector, which can be inserted into the Environmental Education (EE) component. To this end, we conducted a literature review on the subject, followed by documentary research through the examination of current legislation and the environmental discourses found in the Módulos do Programa Educacional “Agronegócio na Escola” (PEAE) developed by the Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio da região de Ribeirão Preto (ABAG/RP). The study, with a qualitative approach, is based on the historical and dialectical materialist method, as well as drawing on contributions from the theoretical strand of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). As a result, it was possible to verify that the agribusiness investment in the country's public schools aims to spread positive images of the sector in terms of sustainability, disassociating and/or denying its relationship with environmental problems.Thus, the insertion of agribusiness into education, including the entrepreneurial approach of EE provision in formal education, through a pragmatic and conservative conservative Educação Ambiental Empresarial do Agronegócio (EAEA), appears to be an ongoing and potentially adverse process, as it weakens both education and Environmental Education of their critical potential. Keywords: Environmental education. Agribusiness. Sustainability.
Tássia Gabriele Balbi de Figueiredo Cordeiro
Corporate-state method in the mineral sector: Discourses and practices in the context of energy transition
The contemporary global socio-ecological context is marked by catastrophic events associated with climate change. In this scenario, the race for minerals considered essential for the energy transition intensifies processes of socio-metabolic disruptions on an expanded scale, in space and time. In Brazil, the corporate sector finds a favorable environment to expand its mining activities, counting on the substantial support of the State, which endorses and facilitates development projects. In Bahia, this process generates numerous socio-environmental conflicts and deepens the historical invisibility of rural peoples and traditional communities. This article analyzes the method of the corporate sector and the State, especially in Bahia, considering their discourses and practices in the context of the energy transition and the global demand for strategic minerals. Specifically, it reflects on the unprecedented expansion of mineral research and prospecting and the resulting territorial conflicts. It addresses the State's narratives in the public hearing held in the Legislative Assembly of Bahia, with the central participation of the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining, highlighting contradictions based on the different perspectives in dispute. Furthermore, it discusses the actions of the state-owned mineral research company, which provides consultancy to mining companies and reproduces discourses strategically propagated by the corporate media sector. The research adopts a dialectical approach, based on the analysis of concrete reality, its historical movement and its contradictions, using qualitative techniques such as participant observation in meetings and training spaces of social movements, as well as during the aforementioned public hearing, and documentary analysis of journalistic articles and publications on official social networks of mining companies and municipal and state governments. In general terms, it highlights an architecture that involves mechanisms of power control and instruments of domination: strategic pragmatism and sectoral hegemony; regulatory disregard and institutional capture; strategies of consensus and social control; technological advancement and information control; territorial investigation and coercive apparatus; hegemonic capital and socio-environmental impacts. Through this structure, corporate tactics find support in the public sector, which works to neutralize political and social obstacles, in addition to benefiting from a political environment favorable to mining under the pretext of decarbonization. An uncontrolled offensive by capital is underway, supported by the State, which guarantees mineral expansion under the guise of sustainability and energy transition, ignoring the socio-ecological impacts on rural people, their territories and ways of life. Keywords: Discourses; Corporate Mineral Sector; State; Mining; Energy Transition.
Costa Rica in the international moral of decarbonization: Multi-scalar political interactions
This article analyzes the construction of an international decarbonization morale and its relationship with projects on a national scale. The central objective of this work was to explore the multi-scale interactions between the international decarbonization morale and its national appropriation, with a case study of Costa Rica and its symbolic construction as an exemplary decarbonization country. To do this, we looked at the discussions surrounding the formulation of Costa Rica's National Decarbonization Policy. The main findings reveal that decarbonization emerges as the dominant moral response to the climate crisis by focusing on the technical management of greenhouse gases while displacing the need for structural transformations of the capitalist system. Concurrently, Costa Rica instrumentalizes this framework to reinforce its international image as environmentally exemplary state, employing decarbonization as a strategy to position itself in green markets, attract transnational investments, and negotiate geoeconomic advantages. It is concluded that, although decarbonization offers practical solutions, it also operates as a political discourse that masks underlying economic interests and contributes to perpetuating the systemic dynamics generating the climate crisis. Finally, given the urgency of climate change/crisis, critical reflections on hegemonic responses and the ideological processes that construct socioecological reality are imperative for advancing toward a horizon of social and environmental justice. Keywords: International morality; decarbonization; geopolitics; consensus; hegemony.
The Law Found in the Pampa: The struggle against neoextractivist mining in a region of the Brazilian biome
The article analyzes the socio-environmental conflict in Palmas, in the Alto Camaquã region, where the Pampa biome remains well-preserved. In 2016, a mineral exploration project was proposed, sparking a popular mobilization against its implementation. This qualitative research, using participant observation and semi-structured interviews, investigates the struggle between neoextractivism, represented by mining, and local resistance, since the proposal for mineral exploration was shelved after years of resistance, reflecting the success of the movement. The article asks: what motivates the fight against mining in Palmas, and how is this connected to the sociobiodiversity of the Pampa? In this context, concepts such as neoextractivism, sociobiodiversity, and popular sovereignty are discussed. The analysis, based on the hermeneutic-dialectical perspective and the Theory of Environmental Justice, reveals strong opposition to mining projects in the Pampa, linked to the region's sociobiodiversity and the local cultural connection. This resistance led to the proposal of recognizing the Pampa as a "mining-free territory," an idea gaining support in community discussions that could influence public policies on mining in Brazil, reflecting the importance of popular sovereignty in the formulation of laws and policies. Keywords: Pampa biome; Socio-environmental conflict; Sociobiodiversity; Neoextractivism; Mining-free territory.
Sérgio “Papagaio”: Um garimpeiro tradicional contra o mar de lama
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REVISITANDO NOSSOS CLÁSSICOS: "Ecologia e Pensamento Revolucionário"
Tradução do ensaio "Ecologia e Pensamento Revolucionário", de Murray Bookchin. Tradutor: Rafael Zilio
Markets socio-territorial construction: theoretical notes on the peasants protagonism potential in agroecological product markets
Markets socio-territorial construction: theoretical notes on the peasants protagonism potential in agroecological product markets Based on the assumption that markets are product of a social (and territorial) construction process, this article discusses how we arrived at the so-called market system, how peasants have established exchanges and adapted to this system, and the importance of them being protagonists in the process of markets socio-territorial construction. Although markets are hegemonically controlled under the aegis of capital expanded accumulation, it is believed that peasants, organised collectively, can create beneficial strategies for marketing their products, especially food. In this sense, through agroecology there is scope for structuring other relationships with markets. A brief history of exchange relations is presented, followed by a debate on the current market system. Elements of the concept of markets socio-territorial construction are presented, based on the potential role of peasants who produce and commercialise agroecological products. The text is based on theoretical notes and deals with the opportunities for the socio-territorial construction of markets through agroecology. The methodological procedures used were a literature review and reflections based on participant research with agroecological producers and their organisations, mainly located in Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná. As a result, inferences are made about how peasants create and institutionalise social relations through agroecology, projecting them territorially in different interactions with markets and taking advantage of possible ‘cracks in capitalism’. Keywords: market; socio-territorial construction; protagonism; peasants; agroecology.
Geography and environmental concerns: A history of parallel efforts, wasted opportunities and competing narratives
Geography and environmental concerns: A history of parallel efforts, wasted opportunities and competing narratives There have always been problems of the type that we now call ‘environmental.’ However, there is no record of societies before ours that created an entire discursive apparatus to deal, with insistence and alarm, with environmental disasters and phenomena of degradation or destruction of ecosystems and biomes. Much less was there any talk of an ‘environmental crisis’ – and there was also no major ‘ecological movement,’ nor even widespread ‘environmentalist’ activism. What seems to have represented new and decisive factors were the advent of capitalism as a mode of production, with the replacement of simple reproduction of capital by expanded reproduction, and the rise of a civil society whose movements began to be driven, in the second half of the 20th century, by increasingly diverse agendas. How has geography positioned itself in the face of all this? What have been its contributions? Despite studying ‘nature’ with the aim of understanding geobiophysical phenomena, physical geographers have often refrained from taking a strong public stance on environmental issues, omitting themselves from related debates. On the other hand, many human geographers have been seduced by the idea of an “epistemological purification” – that is, by the attempt to transform geography into a “pure” social science, free from the task of studying geobiophysical processes – since the 1970s and 1980s. This ‘epistemological purification’ has had several consequences, starting with the fact that, for many human geographers, ‘nature’ has been reduced at best to a historical-philosophical-sociological discourse on something that, nevertheless, has become uninteresting for them from the perspective of empirical research and detailed knowledge. This ‘epistemological purification’ ultimately fueled a tendency among many physical geographers to increasingly distance themselves from human geography, which made it even more difficult for them to have a solid understanding of issues related to public policies, planning, and territorial management, especially from a socially critical or radical viewpoint. As a result of all this, geography, in general, and despite many specific technical-scientific contributions (and an immense epistemological potential), has for decades been wasting the opportunity to play a leading role in the public debates that have come to partially dominate the political landscape and the public imagination since the last decades of the 20th century, with its discussions on the climate crisis, environmental injustice, ocean acidification, the unbreathable air in large cities, the extinction of species and the eradication of entire ecosystems and biomes, and so on. Keywords: Nature and Society; Environmental Concerns; Hybrid Epistemic Objects; Geography.
The discursive environmentalization of Brazilian agribusiness and the construction of an “agri-environmental power”
The aim of this article is to take a historical and political look at the process of environmentalization in the Brazilian agribusiness sector. Since the 1970s, there has been a global and national environmentalization process, which has resulted in the creation of various environmental bodies, laws, agreements, treaties and protocols, and has established a form of environmental governance. This process, and in particular the growing recognition of climate change as a global public problem and a collective emergency, has influenced the actions of players in the international system and national governments, generating pressure on practices that cause environmental degradation, overexploitation of natural resources and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. One of the central sectors in this debate, due to its international and national activities and the implications for climate policies, is agribusiness. In this context, this research aims to critically analyze the process of environmentalization of Brazilian agribusiness, focusing on the climate agenda. Keywords: Agribusiness; Environmentalization; Climate Change; Pensar Agro Institute; Sustainability.
Fronteiras e águas transfronteiriças na Bacia do Prata
The strategies of the real estate-tourism sector and the incorporation of socio-environmental measures on the coast of Brazil
Tourism and real estate activities are becoming increasingly prevalent along the Brazilian coast. These activities are generally situated in environments with complex socio-environmental characteristics, where environmental protection is both a legal obligation and a social imperative. Entrepreneurs in this sector have employed strategies to enhance their businesses. It is hypothesized that the development of a new generation of tourist resorts - comprising complexes, resorts, and beach condominiums - intensively utilizes zoning regulations and environmental restrictions to their advantage. This is due both to the increase in monopoly profits and the spatial exclusivity derived from environmental “barriers”, which can strengthen processes of socio-residential homogenization and forms of tourist appropriation. Methodologically, a multi-scalar socio-territorial interpretation was applied, based on documentary research and, primarily, material collected during fieldwork conducted along stretches of the Brazilian coast, specifically in Bahia, Ceará, and Pernambuco. The findings indicate that business groups implement various socio-environmental strategies that impact zoning regulations, usage restrictions, and the economic valuation of developments. It can be asserted that mechanisms for environmental protection are being established in coastal areas based on market principles, particularly those related to the real estate and tourism sectors, as evidenced by models of low-density residential occupation that remain inaccessible to lower-income strata of society. Keywords: Sustainability; Zoning; Protection; Urbanization.
Territorial autonomy and popular sovereignty: Historical differences, political convergences and dialogues in the construction of alternatives and territorial defenses in Latin America
Territorial autonomy and popular sovereignty: Historical differences, political convergences and dialogues in the construction of alternatives and territorial defenses in Latin America Abstract The construction of territorial autonomy and popular sovereignty have different ontological origins, but they share the historical dimension of Latin American resistance and are part of the Onto-epistemic Paradigm of the Countryside, which involves different ontological, epistemic and political matrices. Built by indigenous and peasant socio-territorial movements, they mobilize resistance and territorial struggles against exploitation, violence and the multiple forms of spoliation produced by capitalist accumulation. They are political forces produced from the actions, practices and knowledge built by collective political subjects organized in territories and communities, and reflect the theoretical accumulation of socio-territorial movements. This article proposes to analyze and contrast these political forces, highlighting two emblematic socio-territorial movements in Latin America that build them, the National Indigenous Congress - Indigenous Council of Government (CNI-CIG) in Mexico, with its struggle for the autonomy of indigenous peoples and their territories, and Via Campesina Brazil, with the struggle for land and territory, agrarian reform and popular sovereignty. The analysis and theoretical debate on territorial autonomy and popular sovereignty contribute to highlighting existing political convergences, understanding historical differences and broadening the dialogue between territorial struggles in Latin America.
Antônio Bispo dos Santos: O plantio das palavras
El objetivo principal de este estudio es analizar los conflictos ambientales que involucran situaciones de injusticia ambiental en la comunidad indígena de Parnamirim, Caucaia, Ceará. Buscamos comprender la recuperación de tierras como una estrategia utilizada por los residentes locales para resistir las amenazas constantes a su territorio, como las relacionadas con la expansión del mercado inmobiliario, las prácticas turísticas depredadoras y el desarrollo de la agricultura extensiva. Para ello, utilizamos metodologías de investigación cualitativa que incluyeron investigación bibliográfica con un marco teórico sobre categorías y conceptos rectores relacionados con la justicia e injusticia ambiental, los procesos de territorialización y los conflictos ambientales, la investigación documental y el análisis de dos decretos municipales, y el trabajo de campo en la recuperación de Parnamirim realizada entre octubre de 2022 y abril de 2025. Entre los principales resultados, identificamos conflictos ambientales relacionados con la comunidad de Parna­mirim, que involucran diferentes usos del territorio por parte de residentes indígenas y no indígenas, un grupo empresarial y el Estado en la figura del Gobierno Municipal de Caucaia. Además, fue posible identi­ficar que, en las circunstancias investigadas, la recuperación de tierras resultó ser un mecanismo impor­tante de lucha y acceso a la tierra y al territorio, aunque de manera provisional, en un contexto de intensa conflictividad ambiental. Palabras clave: Conflictos ambientales; Recuperación de tierras; Injusticia ambiental; Usos del territorio.
Agribusiness is based on the surplus value production and it is antagonistic to traditional ways of life, which organization is based on the co-evolution with nature, social, environmental and cultural practices, all of them respect all forms of life. The Agroecology is opposed to the agribusiness, it is in dialogue with the traditional ways of life, which has a strong peasant base. It is understood as science, movement and practice, constructed and lived by diverse social actors, institutions and organizations, as a way of producing and living. In this sense, sought to analyze the agroecological territoriality of babassu coconut crackers in the southern region of Piauí, in a context of agribusiness expansion. The research was conducted using a qualitative methodology with a participatory approach, based on semi-structured interviews in a community. The analysis was carried out using the critical dialectical approach, employing three categories that define agroecology: dialogues of knowledge; socio-productive practices and political project. The results show that the territoriality developed by the coconut breakers is based on: traditional knowledge (ancestry and orality) questioning the role of classical scientific knowledge; the execution of socio-productive practices sustained under agroecological conditions; and the concretion of the political practice which aims to resist the advance of the agribusiness model. Therefore, the research contributes to the discussion of the link between theory and practice in agroecological and geographical studies. Keywords: Territory; Ancestry; Peasant production; Gender; Piauí-Brazil.
De los límites planetarios a los límites sociales: Un argumento a favor de la autolimitación definida colectivamente
From planetary boundaries to social boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation Abstract The concept of planetary boundaries has radically changed the vocabulary and representation of global environmental issues. Here we bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of social boundaries. Our aim is to enable a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of boundaries. We begin by highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the planetary boundaries perspective from a social science perspective. We then focus on capitalist societies as a heuristic to discuss their expansive dynamics, power relations and obstacles generated from modern societies, which drive highly unsustainable social relations with nature. While formulating social limits implies a contentious process, based on normative judgments, ethical concerns and socio-political struggles, it also has the potential to offer guidelines for a just socio-ecological transformation. Collective autonomy and the politics of self-limitation are key elements of social boundaries and relate to important proposals and pluriversal experiences that integrate well-being and boundaries. The role of the state and radical proposals for alternative approaches to welfare are particularly important. We conclude with reflections on social freedom, defined as the right not to live at the expense of others. With the aim of advancing towards the definition of these limits through transdisciplinary and democratic processes, this article seeks to open a dialogue on these issues. Keywords: Planetary boundaries; Social boundaries; Capitalism; Social-ecological transformations; Self-limitation; Critical Social Sciences.
Resenha do livro "Onde você está nesta lama? Crônicas da mineração no Brasil", de Ricardo Assis Gonçalves GONÇALVES, Ricardo Assis. Onde você está nesta lama? Crônicas da mineração no Brasil. Anápolis: Editora da UEG, 2024.
Jaci e Sueli: Um pescador e uma “dona de casa” enfrentam uma siderúrgica